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If you like this blowgun, we carry other fine exotic blowguns from all over the world. We have the Diamond Wood, Borneo Bone 1, Borneo Bone 2, Borneo Bamboo, Borneo Bamboo 2, Borneo Bamboo 3, Peru Yagua, Urarinas, Colombia Socoyas.
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PURCHASE INCLUDES: Yagua pucunas (blowgun) with quiver (dart holder). Each quiver (dart holder) holds approximately four (4) darts which are included. All items are hand crafted. As each item is individually hand crafted, it is hard to tell what will appear on each quiver. Some quivers (sample shown on left) have piranha teeth which are used for sharpening the darts, others have the skeletal spine of an animal to sharpen the darts. The darts are made of palm-leaf midrib and tuffed with kapoc fiber. They are carried in a quiver made from pleated palm leaves. A small huingo "gourd" attached to the quiver holds a supply of kapoc fiber to tuft the darts. Click on picture to the left and see a larger image of the canister and bones for sharpening the darts. Use your back arrow button to return to this page. |
| Yagua pucunas have unique look in as much that they are wrapped with the root skins from the huambe plant, a kind of
philodendron. No two
blowguns, canisters and/or art work on the blowguns are the same.
Each shipment (about 3-6 per shipment) will have slight differences.
Some of the odd ones come from a different Yagua village.
Numbering some 3,900
(Yagua people) and spreading over some 30 communities, the differences demonstrates how construction methods drift slowly with time when
isolated.
Click on picture to purchase this blowgun. Item PERU, price is $139.00 plus shipping. Please read shipping information below. |
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NUMBERS: Each blowgun and canister that arrives at our location has a specific tag with a number assigned to it. The tribes people are very superstitious and believe that the quiver that is made for the blowgun MUST stay together to bring good luck in hunting. When you receive your blowgun, the blowgun and the quiver should have matching numbers.
PICTURES: There are a number of pictures here for viewing. When clicking on these links to view the pictures it will open a new browser. Just close the browser with the picture in it once you are done viewing. You will stay on this page.
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HUNTING INFORMATION: These blowguns are from the Yagua Indians in Peru. Yagua Indians usually use these blowguns for hunting monkeys, tree porcupines, pacas, sloths, birds and other small rainforest animals. Getting these blowguns usually is by speedboat and cruising the majestic waterways of the Amazon system.
The ancient knowledge of making curare, the lethal poison used by Amazonian
Indians to coat the tips of the darts they fire from their blowpipes, is still applied by the village
elders. The poison is made by boiling up the dozens of plants and roots that make up the
ingredients until a velvet-black juice is left in the bottom of the pot. The fast-acting
poison causes paralysis, rendering the victim's lungs useless and bringing about death by
suffocation in a matter of minutes.
TRIBAL INFORMATION: Yagua is an exotic tribe of Indians who live their most natural lives in the depth of the Amazon jungle within Peru. The Yaguas speak their own and very difficult language by the same name. They refuse to learn Spanish and show almost total apathy towards what we call "civilized way of life." Only the chief travels to Iquitos, some 30 miles away and half an hour by speedboat, about once a week, to purchase food stuff and other essentials for the Yaguas. The rest of the tribe stays put. The Yagua people live along the Amazon River from roughly Iquitos, Peru to Leticia, Colombia. The Yaguas have been spared the perils of guerrilla conflict, drug trafficking and oil exploration. The people traveling to pick up these blowguns run the risk of running into guerrilla conflicts and the dangers along the Amazon River.
The Yaguas are good with handicrafts so some of their bead work usually shows up on the dart quivers. The Yagua are skilled craft workers. The men make nice wood carvings of animal figures, decorative blowguns and bows and arrows.
Economically, the Yaguas are a subsistence people. They grow crop, hunt
and fish. Their hospitality and sociability to tourists and outsiders is also a source of needed funds.
Your purchase of this hand-crafted weapon, provides villagers with the much-needed hard currency for
buying medical supplies and other essentials.
There is one dreadful anthropological fact about the Yaguas: they are the
direct descendants of recent cannibals.
INFORMATIONAL SOURCES: Prof. Anibal J. Rosario | John Waymire | Arabella Sech
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