Women's headress of the Waura on display at the American Museum of Natural History
Total population
487 (2010)
Regions with significant populations
Brazil
Languages
Waura
Related ethnic groups
Mehinako
The Wauja or Waura (Waurá: Waujá; Portuguese: Uaurás) are an indigenous people of Brazil. Their language, Waurá, is an Arawakan language.[1] They live in the region near the Upper Xingu River, in the Xingu Indigenous Park in the state of Mato Grosso, and had a population of 487 in 2010.
^Ball, Christopher (2018). Exchanging Words: Language, Ritual, and Relationality in Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Park. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-5854-7.
The Wauja or Waura (Waurá: Waujá; Portuguese: Uaurás) are an indigenous people of Brazil. Their language, Waurá, is an Arawakan language. They live in...
Kalapalo, Kamaiurá, Kayapó, Kuikuro, Matipu, Mehinako, Nahukuá, Suyá, Trumai, Wauja and Yawalapiti. The different tribes comprising the Xingu have not been...
women of the indigenous Wauja people. The Wauja people are located at South America, in the Upper Xingu River, Brazil. Wauja people have celebrated Yamurikuma...
Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, Rondônia, Brazil Wari' (Pacanawa, Waricaca'), Rondônia, Brazil Wauja (Waurá, Waura), Mato Grosso, Brazil Wuy jugu (Mundurucu, Munduruku) Yawalapiti...
Goajira Peninsula. Passes, mary, Lower Jupura. Puri, maky, Rio Paraiba. Wauja, mainki, Upper Xingu River. Arawak is the largest family in the Americas...
boundaries of the park are the Kamaiurá (355), Aweti (138), Mehinako (199), Wauja (321), Yawalapiti (208), Kalapalo (417), Kuikuro (415), Matipu (119), Nahukwá...
kidnapped two girls from the Wauja people, who brought a non-native disease (possibly influenza) to their tribe. The Wauja tribe also attacked the Ikpeng...
language Critically endangered gae Wari language Definitely endangered pav Wauja language Vulnerable wau Wayana language Vulnerable way Xambioá language...
disappearing. ACT is also using Terrastories to map oral histories with the Wauja in Brazil and the Kogui in Colombia. Terrastories is a free and open-source...
Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, Rondônia, Brazil Wari' (Pacanawa, Waricaca'), Rondônia, Brazil Wauja (Waurá, Waura), Mato Grosso, Brazil Wuy jugu (Mundurucu, Munduruku) Yawalapiti...
travelling to the upper reaches of the Xingu River; he is welcomed to the Wauja tribe, one of the most colourful of all the Brazilian indigenous peoples...
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