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At the time of Spanish arrival to South America, the Jivaro were an independent culture and hostile to outsiders. The neighboring Incas had tried to subjugate the Jivaroan peoples, but the Inca Empire's expansion attempts failed after a series of bloody confrontations where the Inca army lost against the fierce Jivaroan warriors.
The Shuar, also known as Jivaro, are an indigenous ethnic group that inhabits the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazonia. They are famous for their hunting skills and their tradition of head shrinking, known as Tzantsa. The Shuar language belongs to the Jivaroan linguistic family and is spoken by over 50,000 people in the region.
The extinct Palta language was classified as Chicham by Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño about 1940 and was followed by Čestmír Loukotka.However, only a few words are known, and Kaufman (1994) states that there is "little resemblance".
Shuar (which literally means "people", also known by such (now derogatory) terms as Chiwaro, Jibaro, Jivaro, or Xivaro) is an indigenous language spoken by the Shuar people of Morona Santiago Province and Pastaza Province in the Ecuadorian Amazon basin.
Shrunken heads in the permanent collection of Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Seattle. A shrunken head is a severed and specially-prepared human head – often decreased to many times smaller than typical size – that is used for trophy, ritual, trade, or other purposes.
Jivaro or Jibaro, also spelled Hivaro or Hibaro, may refer to: Jíbaro (Puerto Rico), mountain-dwelling peasants in Puerto Rico; Jíbaro music, a Puerto Rican musical genre; Jivaroan peoples, indigenous peoples in northern Peru and eastern Ecuador; Jívaro people or Shuar, one of the Jivaroan peoples
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Jíbaro culture is also characterized by its own typical Puerto Rican folk music, commonly termed "jíbaro music". [12] " Jíbaro music and dance was the principal musical expression of the humble and hardworking mountain people who worked the coffee plantations and inland farms of Puerto Rico."