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Indian Cultures from Around the World
Bora Indians
The Bora (Bore-uh) Indians live deep in the Peruvian Amazon along the Ampiyacu
River which is a tributary of the Amazon. Historically enemies with the Huitoto (we-toe-toe)
Indians, they have in
recent times become close allies with adjoining villages and frequent
intermarriage. They are artistically talented tribes, making masks, dolls,
rattles, blowguns etc. Many of their crafts are made of bark cloth decorated
with vegetable dyes. The bark cloth is made of the inner bark of a fig tree and
is beaten until it is paper or cloth like. From the bark cloth they make their
clothing which consists of a short skirt for both men and women in the Huitoto. There is a type of palm tree used the make the twine used in bags and hammocks.
The Huitoto women traditionally go bare breasted. The Bora tribe dresses
similarly, but the women wear a dress of bark cloth as opposed to just a skirt.
Both sexes in both tribes wear necklaces, feathers and sometimes white body
paint or red body paint made of onoto or urucu which is a pod that crushes
to a reddish paste.
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Bora women displaying their crafts. |
These traditional paintings were made by the Bora Indians using vegetable dyes on pounded bark cloth.
Bora Necklaces
Bora Ceremonial Rattles
Bora art
Bora clothing made of pounded bark cloth.
Additional Information
Amazon art - Toucan paintings on bark cloth
Ethnologue: Colombia
Amazon-Indians.org
Bora language
Bora photos
Bora Indian Agroforestry: An Alternative to Deforestation
Bora Indians of the Amazon - Traditional Chants and Music Video
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