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Apurinã
Popũkare
Total population
9,487 (2014) [1]
Regions with significant populations
  Brazil (  Amazonas,   Mato Grosso,   Rondônia)
Languages
Apurinã
Religion
Traditional tribal religion [1]
Related ethnic groups
Kaxarari [1]

The Apurinã, also called TheIpurinã, Ipurinãn, Kangite, Popukare ( endonym), are an indigenous people who live near the Purus River in western Brazil [1] and speak Apurinã.

Their houses are long, low and narrow: the side walls and roof are one, poles being fixed in the ground and then bent together so as to meet and form a pointed arch for the cross-sections. They use small bark canoes. Their chief weapons are poisoned arrows. They have a native god called Guintiniri. [2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Apurinã - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil". pib.socioambiental.org. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
  2. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). " Hipurnias". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 523.

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