Shipibo-Conibo

Shipibo
Three Shipibo girls in Pucallpa wearing traditional textiles
Total population
11,000-25,000
Regions with significant populations
 Peru
Languages
Shipibo, Spanish
Religion
Christian, Animism[1]
Related ethnic groups
Shipibo pottery in the Museo de América, Madrid, Spain

The Shipibo-Conibo are an indigenous people along the Ucayali River in the Amazon rainforest in Peru. Formerly two groups, they eventually became one tribe through intermarriage and communal ritual and are currently known as the Shipibo-Conibo people.[2][3]

Traditional embroidery featuring the Shipibo-Conibo pattern known as kené
  1. ^ "Achuar: Culture." BBC: Peruvian Jungle. (retrieved 4 July 2011)
  2. ^ Eakin, Lucile; Erwin Laurialy; Harry Boonstra (1986). "People of the Ucayali: The Shipibo and Conibo of Peru". International Museum of Cultures Publication: 62.
  3. ^ "The Shipibo-Conibo Amazon Forest People at the Dawn of the 21st Century".