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The UANKI state among the Bacairiarticle 1950 • Altenfelder Silva, Fernando & Brunel, A.
Bakairi • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
Certain aspects of the culture of the Bakairi Indians of Mato Grosso are briefly described: their technology, kinship terminology, pantheon, ceremonies, shamanism, and the series of ritualistic seclusions, or UANKI, that occur at intervals during the...