Tikuna Portrait

For the Tikuna People (Maguta), the territory means the space where mothers and owners of what exists live. The owners of plants (Makutuku), animals (Dayai), fishes (Yewae) and all lives in the world above, i. e. the wind and the birds (oma). Everything is subordinated to an order established by the shamans (Auneku) and the grandparents of each of the clans.