Tupis

Those found on the Lower Amazon are more or less civilised, and are known as Tupis, or Tapuyas.

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

In many parts of the New World this perversion was accompanied by another depravity of taste — confirmed cannibalism. 411 The forests and campos abounded in game from the deer to the pheasant-like penelope, and the seas and rivers produced an unfailing supply of excellent fish and shell-fish; 412 yet the Brazilian Tupis preferred the meat of man to every other food.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The Tupis were found by the Portuguese explorers along the coast of eastern Brazil and in the interior from the mouth of the La Plata to the lower Amazon, while two distant tribes of the Tupis were dropped down amid a prevailing Arawak population far away among the foothills of the Andes in two separate localities on the western

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

Both the Tupis and Guaranis were cannibals, and they had no regard for chastity.

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

Tupis, the bride yielded herself first to another, lest her husband should come to some ill-luck by exercising

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

It forms the philological basis for his assertion, already quoted, that the languages of the Algonquins of North America, the Nahuas of Mexico, the Mayas of Yucatan, the Quichas of Peru, and the Tupis and Guaranis of Brazil "supply us with evidence that the sentiment of love was awake among them."

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

Galibis of the main land are descendants from the same stock as the Tupis and Guaranis.

The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

It is still an open question whether the Tupis and Guaranis who inhabit the vast region between the Amazon and the Pampas of Buenos Ayres are affined to them.

The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

As Akbal or Huecomitl, the great or original vase, in Aztec and Maya legends it plays important parts in the drama of creation; as Tici (Ticcu) in Peru it is the symbol of the rains, and as a gourd it is often mentioned by the Caribs and Tupis as the parent of the atmospheric waters.

The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

Montaigne knew a man who had lived among the Tupis of Brazil for ten or twelve years, and had learned their language and customs.

Aboriginal American Authors Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868