SOUTH AMERICAN PICTURES

Brazil

File number: brja0004

© South American Pictures/ Tony Morrison

Brazil: Pará state: A ceramic tanga or pubic cover from the Marajoara culture of the Island of Marajó in the Amazon mouth. Towards the end of the 19th century travellers noticed large earthern mounds on the island, where funerary urns and artifacts had been buried. The Marajoara culture existed between the 5th and 14th centuries. The people lived mainly by fishing, but also farmed on the fertile Amazon várzea, or floodplains.

 

 

 

 

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