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This object came to the museum without provenance. It was identified as “Mebêngôkre (Kayapo)” through formal comparison with similar objects. Although they use the name Kayapo in international relations, the 22 communities that lived along the Iriri, Bacajá and Fresco rivers, and other tributaries of the Xingu, prefer to call themselves Mebêngôkre or “men from the water.”
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