Huaorani

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Huaorani use spears and blow guns laced with a poison that incapacitates or paralyzes their target. The blow guns are used for animals like monkeys or birds which are high up in the trees and out of reach of hunters. Hunters will carry a hallowed out gourd on their chest which carries the poison. The hunter dips the dart into the gourd before loading it into the blow gun. The dart itself is made from a soft palm frond stem that has to be whittled. The tip is heated in a fire which hardens the tip and looks like a foot-long toothpick only sharper. The poison is made from shaving the bark of a special vine (Bradley A. L. 2010).

The Huaorani approach to subsistence is influenced by these hunting limitations. The Huaorani must not eat meat from either an eagle or a jaguar. The Huaorani believe that the jaguar is a formidable Oriente forecaster and according to a popular belief held within the community, the mating between an eagle and a jaguar was the point ...

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(2010) notes that the Huaorani are aware the forests are a source of their livelihood. With that in mind, they have over time, defended their forests against any form of encroachment by outsiders (Wright, R. 2009).

Huaorani culture

The Huaorani are a semi-nomadic horticultural society, also referred to as the Waorani or Aucas, and live in the Amazon Rainforest. Since they pursue certain animals and the women collect berries and fruits they may possibly be considered foragers, however they harvest crops that they plant wherever they travel. They move from place to place within the forest to find food. Current technological farming techniques are not used, because they are a ...

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