numbering now only twenty-five or thirty, apparently 
fled to hiding in this remote spot more than a quarter of 
a century ago rather than submit to enforced labor in 
the balata-forests. 
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Rio Kananari 
~AIWANOS 
r —_— MIDDLE SECTOR OF RIO APAPORIS, 
4 a 4 cryirtimo 
. COLOMBIAN AMAZONIA 
‘y : 
7 
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iv Falls 60 ft 
Showing present location of 
Indian groups 
. : by R.E.Schultes, 
Pia Apaporis 1943, 1952-3 
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ra Peritome Tgarapé ns yAs e 
Carao Rapids 6 
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Wakurukiw 
Cano ae 
PERITOME 
TANIMUKAS 
MAK 
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Rio Popeyaca NAS 
It would seem that these isolated Tanimukas hold a 
monopoly on this unusual method of coca-making. 
Whether it is a recent innovation of their own or whether 
it represents a once more widespread culture-trait surviv- 
ing only in this small band we cannot declare. All that | 
can state with certainty is that the custom is not prac- 
ticed amongst any of the other coca-using tribes of 
Amazonian Colombia, not even in the main group of 
Tanimukas. It is worthy of note, nevertheless, that the 
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