Reuters photographer Ueslei Marcelino visited the Waura tribe in Xingu national park, Mato Grosso state. Quarup is a ritual held over several days to honour a person of great importance who has died.

The ancestral pottery practice of an Indigenous community in Brazil has come under threat due to climate change. The Waurá people, an Arawakan-speaking Indigenous group in the Xingu National Park in ...

According to the tradition of the Waurá (or Wauja) people, a great canoe snake appeared many years ago. Called Kamalu-hái, it carried ceramic artifacts on its back, and it was from this being that the ...

The film shows the daily life of indigenous village Piyulaga, home of Waurá tribe --an ethnicity of 560 people who live at Xingu Park in Mato Grosso, Brazil. It also reveals how the indigenous ...

Introduction / Robert Barrett -- The Amazon -- The people / Adam Mekler -- Insights into the feather arts of the Amazon people / Michael Bernstein -- Mythology and rituals -- Kuikuru creation myth -- ...