Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú

Digitalizado pelo Google Books a partir de original da University of Michigan. Disponível através do Hathi Trust:
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001973323

The rapid economic development of South America, especially Brazil, has had its influence on the primitive inhabitants, such as the Suyá tribe in Central Brazil and the Caiapó in the wide plains of the middle Xingu River. These people, until recently unapproachable because of their unfriendly attitude, have been affected by the changes in their tribal regions, and have emerged and entered into friendly relations with the whites.
Other Indian tribes, whose names have not until now been known, are being discovered in the far corners of the primeval forests. The day is not distant when the last blank places in the immense, unexplored primeval forests of the Amazon will be filled in on the map.
At the behest of the Brazilian Government the author journeyed every year for two decades to little-known, as well as little visited Indians, some without any previous contact with the outside world. In addition to his scientific exploration of Indian life, he set out from the beginning to use his camera to capture a lifelike picture of his primitive friends.
He spent many months with certain Indian tribes. All the photographs in this book are genuine proof of real Indian life. None is staged.
HOMBU in the Crahó Indian language means 'Look here!' With this illustrated volume the author will attempt to bring to the reader that which is human in the Indian, that incomprehensible comprehensible that unites all mankind all over the world because it is present in all of us.
Hombu!

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