Macusi

Twenty years after Waterton walked across the Guianas, the botanist Robert Schomburgk confirmed that the curare of the Macusi Indians was derived from Strychnos toxifera.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Twenty years after Waterton walked across the Guianas, the botanist Robert Schomburgk confirmed that the curare of the Macusi Indians was derived from Strychnos toxifera.

One River Wade Davis 1996

A Macusi boy had died a natural death, and his relatives endeavoured to discover the quarter to which the _kenaima_ who was supposed to have slain him belonged.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

It was blessed, and was prospering greatly, and gave promise of the speedy conversion of the Macusi tribe and others, when some Brazilian Roman Catholic priests, hearing of it, determined on its destruction, and induced their government to claim the region as

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The ecosystem is home to settled Macusi and Wapishana communities which are interested stakeholders but also stewards of this ecosystem.

Stabroek News 2009

The ecosystem is home to settled Macusi and Wapishana communities which are interested stakeholders but also stewards of this ecosystem.

Stabroek News 2009

Among the Macusi Indians he took note of the ritual prohibitions that circumscribed the preparation of the poison, and he documented the ingredients in great detail: red pepper and various roots, venomous ants, the crushed fangs of deadly bushmasters and fer-de-lance, and the rasped bark of wourali, a forest liana, “thick as a man’s body.”

One River Wade Davis 1996

Among the Macusi Indians he took note of the ritual prohibitions that circumscribed the preparation of the poison, and he documented the ingredients in great detail: red pepper and various roots, venomous ants, the crushed fangs of deadly bushmasters and fer-de-lance, and the rasped bark of wourali, a forest liana, “thick as a man’s body.”

One River Wade Davis 1996

+ The Macusi of British Guiana forbid women to bathe during the period, and also forbid them to go into the forest, for they would risk bites from enamored snakes. [

Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875