Munduruku
HUMANS AND SOCIETY
FESTIVALS Visitors to Juruti in July encounter a town transformed. An explosion of color, music and excitement signal that preparations are underway for the Tribal Folklore Festival, known as Festribal. This event, organized annually since 1994, evokes and pays homage to the rituals of tribes from the region. The Muirapinima color themselves blue and red, in lively contrast with the red and yellow of the Munduruku tribe. The festival takes place in the Tribodome, an open-air arena in the shape of a canoe, where the two tribes perform choreography, music, parables and rituals that portray the culture of the two tribes.
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Muirapinima