Wanám People
Wanám, (also Huanyam and Pawumwa), were a group of Amerindians once native to the region of southern Rondônia in Brazil. They lived on the Cantarinho River, Cautarinho, Sao Miguel and Manoel rivers near their confluence with the Guaporé River, Guaporé. Around 1914 there were 300 Wanám. The rubber booms of the twentieth century destroyed the tribe because of the violence and diseases brought in by neo-Brazilians. The surviving Wanám went to live with neighboring groups Kabixí living on the São Miguel River. Although the Wanám people did not survive, their language did, at least among the Kabixí Indians. Dwellings Wanám took refuge from mosquitoes in small conical cabines tightly thatched with patoju leaves. They also built small shelters consisting of a few palm leaves placed horizontally on three perpendicular poles, for workshops and as men's clubs. They used hammocks made of cotton but sometimes also fibers. Subsistance Farming was practiced by all the people l ...
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