parentintins

Updated: May 28, 2025

They generally make a foray every year on an adjoining tribe, the Parentintins, when they kill the men, whose heads they preserve by drying and smoking, while they take the women and children for slaves. They have regular villages of conical huts, the walls and framework filled in with mud and thatched with palm-leaves.

William Henry Giles Kingston - The Western World: Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North: and South America

Besides the Araras and the Mundurucus, the latter a tribe friendly to the whites, attached to agriculture, and inhabiting the interior of the country from the Madeira to beyond the Tapajos, two other tribes of Indians now inhabit the lower Madeira, namely, the Parentintins and the Muras.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons