Questions

1.-What are the main products of Yuracare people?

The main products of yuracare people are corn, rice, citrus, coffe, peanuts, beans, squash, cassava,
plantain.

2.- How do they wear?

They wore their nightgowns made of bark. (corocha). Yuracare’s shirts were worn by both sexes.
The man come to their feet and women were shorter, knee or slightly above. The yuracare’s men
also wore cotton sleepwear, men took pains to prepare their shirts for the holidays and for duels
of arrows, the women, they had these ornaments.

3.- What kind of materials do they use to make their houses?

They built chuchio stem from their homes and its flower spike, the pipes of his arrows.

The homes of the Yuracare people were rectangular base with the pitched roof of palm leaves that
fell to the ground.

4.- What were women and men task in their community?

Somen are responsible for the cure of children up to 8 years. After That, the boys were tought by
their fathers, and girls were tought by their mothers.

The yuracare’s man principal task is the agriculture too.

5.- Describe the main ritual of yuracare people

Girl rites warns that a woman, the father locked in her daughter a little cabin so she can’t see the
light. After the ceremony begins where the father presented to the community that her daughter
is now a woman.

Males become skilled in hunting and fishing to reach the age of marriage.

6.- What are their religion and gods?

The religion of the Yuracare people is most unique: no love or respect to any divinity or god , and
yet they believe in nature.

7.- Who is the leader of yuracare people? How was he chosen?

It can be the oldest, the wisest and the best haunter.

8.- What kind of values do they have?

Good and bad, they have a concept of good and evil and considered less regularly stealing, lying or
killing.

9.- Describe how was the education of yuracare people.

The education was based on a concept of total freedom in which the blame or scold had no place.

10.- What is the characteristic of this culture?

The yuracares had in earlier times to contact with the west a social system sui generis. It can be: A
big family, a marriage of a chief. The yuracare’s are characterized too by their form to do the
things.