Nele Kantule

Nele Kantule (sitting) in 1927

Nele Kantule Iguibilikinya (1868–1944) was a famous chief and medicine man of the Guna indigenous tribe of Panama.

Biography

He was born in Putorgandi, in what is today Ustupu Island, Panama. He was a leader of the Guna from early in the twentieth century until his death.

His life was described by Erland Nordenskiöld, in his 1938 book on the Guna, An historical and ethnological survey of the Cuna Indians.

References

  1. ↑ Formerly spelled Kuna or Cuna.
  2. ↑ Charles D. Kleymeyer, Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development: Cases from Latin America and the Caribbean (1994), p. 93.
  3. ↑ Posthumous, editor Henry Wassen.
  4. ↑ Malena Kuss, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History (2004), p. 214.
  5. ↑ "The Door of the Seas and the Key to the Universe". www.gutenberg-e.org. Retrieved September 15, 2019.

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