“Our culture, language,

history & values are vital to

uniting us as a nation.”

- Bobby Jindal
 Background Information
Capital: Brasilia

Official Language: Portuguese

Population: 2 million

Religion: Christian (Catholic)

Ethnic: White 47%

Black 8%
Mixed 43%
Asian 1%
Amerindian 0.4%
The Matis Tribe
The Matis

 The Rituals

The Hunting Trial

 The Matis
Who are the Matis?
 First contact
 FUNAI organization
 The Jaguar people

 Population
 Roughly 390 in 2010
 The western disease

Lifestyle
 Hunting & Agriculture
 The physical problem
Where do they live?
 Before 1983
 Five villages
 Vale do Javari

 Now
 The Itui river
 Aurelio & Beija Flor

 The restrictions
 The chaos
 Not allowed to enter the villages
Interesting facts
 Their thoughts
 Xokeke
 Binkeke

 A plane crash
 Oct 2009
 The Brazilian Air Force

 The future
 Modern Brazilian society
 Rejected ceremonies
 The Rituals
Facial ornaments
 The history
 The disturbance of the contact
 Older people’s judgments

 The sequences
First piercing at the age of 4
Tattoos in the adult stage

 The importance
 Maturity
 Right time & right things
Ceremonies
 Preparations
 Paintings
 Wearing masks

The Marvin ceremony

 As ancestral spirits
 For misbehaviors

 The Musha ceremony

 Getting tattoos
 Last around 2 weeks
Other interesting traditions
 Type
 Having fun
 Representation of animals

 Dancing
 In the long house
 Imitate the animals’ behaviors

 The burial
 Wrapped in the hammock
 Burning the belongings
 The Hunting Trial
Introduction
 Why…
 Masters in jungles
 Worthy to hunt

 How…
 Done in 4 steps
 No time limit

 The result
 Allowed to hunt
 Performance before hunting
The 4 rituals of the hunting trial
 How they test?
 Poison
 Stems

 1st & 2nd Ritual

 Poisonous leaf into the eyes
 Beaten by Rattan Stems

 3rd & 4th Ritual

 Frog poison into the bloodstream
 Rubbing poisonous leaf all over the
body
The ideas
 Poison into the eyes & beating
 Better vision, increase stamina
 Help with laziness

 Poisoninto the bloodstream &

Rubbing all-over the body
 Provide strength
 Patience

 Hunting after the trial

 Bow & blowgun
 Monkeys