Kanka-bono

They spoke only Kanka-bono, which only a few dying relatives in the jungle and, as things would turn out, one dirty old white man in Guayaquil could understand.

Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985

And that was what they would leave to their children on Santa Rosalia when they entered, one by one, the blue tunnel into the Afterlife: the comforts of at least having each other, and the Kanka-bono language, and the Kanka-bono religion, and the Kanka-bono jokes and songs.

Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985

The Captain found out that a Kanka-bono woman was pregnant only very late in the game because nobody was about to tell him, certainly, but also because the Kanka-bono women hated him so much, mainly on racist grounds, that he hardly ever saw one.

Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985

They had been stuck with each other after Selena and Hisako paired off and raised Akiko, and the Kanka-bono women moved to the far side of the crater, preserving the purity of their Kanka-bono beliefs and attitudes and ways.

Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985

He had in fact written a twenty-six line poem called "The Last Kanka-bono," about the extinction of a little tribe in the Ecuadorian rain forest.

Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985

One of the Kanka-bonos 'customs, incidentally, was to keep their names a secret from anyone who wasn't a Kanka-bono.

Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985

Mary and Hisako and Selena and * Kazakh and poor * Wait and the Kanka-bono girls and the Captain's brother were pelted with seeming kernels of white corn instead.

Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985

The Kanka-bono girls had stolen her while Selena slept, and choked her with their bare hands, and skinned and gutted her with no other tools than their teeth and fingernails.

Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985

It had a common language and a common religion and some common jokes and songs and dances and so on, almost everything Kanka-bono.

Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985

The throbbing of the _Bah-a de Darwin's_ engines became fainter and the steel sun deck became transparent, so that I could see into the main saloon below, where the Kanka-bono girls were gnawing the bones of their innocent sister Kazakh.

Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985