Tucano people

"Tucanos" redirects here. For the Brazilian party whose adepts are known as "tucanos", see Brazilian Social Democratic Party.
Tucano
ye’pâ-masa
Tukano welcome dances
Languages
Tucanoan languages
Religion
Traditional beliefs, Protestantism, Catholicism
Tucano bark cloth dance regalia, collection of the American Museum of Natural History

The Tucano people (sometimes spelt Tukano)(In Tucano: ye’pâ-masɨ (m.sg.), ye’pâ-maso (f.sg.), ye’pâ-masa (pl.))[1], are a group of Indigenous South Americans in the northwestern Amazon, along the Vaupés River and the surrounding area. They are mostly in Colombia, but some are in Brazil. They are usually described as being made up of many separate tribes, but that oversimplifies the social and linguistic structure of the region.

  1. ^ Ramirez, Henri (2019). "ye'pâ (ye'pâ-masɨ / ye'pâ-maso / ye'pâ-masa)" (PDF). A Fala Tukano dos Ye’pâ-Masa, Tomo II: Dicionário (versão atualizada, 2019). Manaus: Inspetoria Salesiana Missionária da Amazônia. p. 202.