maloca

The paintings on the face of the maloca were the same images as those carved into petroglyphs by the ancients, and these were the same as what he saw an hour after the shaman cleaned the ritual vessel with a scarlet feather and poured him a dose of the drug.

One River Wade Davis 1996

The paintings on the face of the maloca were the same images as those carved into petroglyphs by the ancients, and these were the same as what he saw an hour after the shaman cleaned the ritual vessel with a scarlet feather and poured him a dose of the drug.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Her dreams are to open a discothèque in the "maloca" (an ancestral long house) that she owns and establish a store.

Kiva Loans 2010

They spent the night at a small settlement of Kabuyari Indians on the Caño Paco, in a longhouse, or maloca, decorated with elaborate abstract motifs painted in yellows, reds, browns, and blacks with pigments made from leaves, dirt, and roots.

One River Wade Davis 1996

I felt my hands running over the dirt floor of the maloca, saw dust tinged with green light, heard the voices of women laughing.

One River Wade Davis 1996

• Yagé images painted on the walls of a Makuna maloca, Río Piraparaná.

One River Wade Davis 1996

The Barasana bury their people in the floor of the maloca, in coffins made from broken canoes.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Dawn found the men asleep in hammocks beneath the rafters of the maloca.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Emissaries of the capitán of the longhouse had scattered through the forest inviting all families of the Yukunas, Matapies, and Tanimukas to begin their movement toward the maloca.

One River Wade Davis 1996

And since all rivers, including the River of the Underworld, are believed to run east, each maloca must be oriented along an east-west axis, with a door at each end, one for the men and one for the women.

One River Wade Davis 1996