Metyktire people

The Metyktire are an indigenous people in Brazil.

The people have probably around 100 members and is living in voluntary isolation in an inaccessible area about 2,000 kilometers northwest of Rio de Janeiro. The Metyktire is a part of the Kayapo in Menkregnoti Reserve in the Amazon basin. They speak an older form of the Kayapo language and are up to a penis sheath mostly unclothed. The men wear black and red face painting and in the lower lip discs ( lip plugs ), the women traditionally shave his head bald.

The existence of the people in May 2007, it was announced three families of Metyktire for a short time, the Kayapo village Kapot in the state of Mato Grosso sought out. The Kayapo suggest that the Metyktire are descendants of several families Kayapo, who retired in the 1950s with the arrival of Orlando Villas Boas, an anthropologist and defender of Indian rights, following a dispute with their relatives deeper into the jungle.

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• Indigenous people in Brazil