Guachi

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The Guachi are an indigenous tribe of Brazil that has been lost since 1870 and belongs to the Guaycurú group. They first settled the highlands of Bolivia and later moved on to the marshland of the Rio Miranda and Paraguay .

"The small people of the Guachí or Guachié, whose identity appears to be secured with the Guarapayo, Guasarapo, Baschereposs or Guaxarapo named by the oldest authors, Koch ... ranks under the language group" Guairkurú "."

- Ludwig Kersten, The Indian tribes of the Gran Chaco up to the end of the 18th century , 1905, p. 51.

literature

  • Theodor Koch-Grünberg : The Guaikurú group. In: Mittheilungen der Anthropologische Gesellschaft in Wien , Volume XXXIII, Vienna 1903, pp. 1–128, here chapter: Guatschi , pp. 38–40 ( digitized in the Internet Archive).
  • Ludwig Kersten: The Indian tribes of the Gran Chaco up to the end of the 18th century. A contribution to the historical ethnography of South America. In: International Archive for Ethnography . Volume XVII, Leiden 1905, pp. 1-75, here p. 51 ( digitized in the Internet Archive).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Guachi. In: Meyers Kleines Konversations-Lexikon , 1908, third volume, p. 321.