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THE PEOPLES OF AMERICA
(Temporany Translation)
MAYA
The Mayan is people of the Guatemala and Mexico. They believe in
various divinity like Chac the God of the rain, Kukulkan, and Ek
Chuah. Their thought, and round to it places their life is that the
month has created the sky the earth and the day. Anciently they were
a lot interested to music, played instruments to breath and
percussions, their melodie accompanied dances and rituals. In the
Mayan cities they are present pyramids, observatories, and above all
public squares for every event, ceremonies, exchanges trade them
etc. The Mayan sculpture can be divided in two parts, before it
comprises stars, and the sculpture to all round; while the second
part comprises the architectonic sculptures like the architraves and
paintings to the inside of the palaces. The used technique is the
bassorilievo. Much rare they are the sculptures in wood, the
painting of the Mayan is much diffusing and known, it is through
frescoes is through the ceramics. In the God of the rain often
frescoes the represented subject is the mask of Chac, in the period
postclassic appeared new architectonic elements, in fact, thanks to
the use of columns the stocky structure of the buildings was
lightened remarkablly.
HAIDA
The Haida population of North America is one. They conserve tutt'
hour characteristic somatiche that remembers Polynesia. They were
fishermen, and agriculturists of tobacco, every group were divided
to noble, plebei and that is enslaved second the class social. Their
rooms have a plant to square shape, in wood, and in the frontal
external wall there are the totemici poles decorates to you with
grotteschi designs. And strongly present it is the practical one of
the tatuaggi and the painting of the bodies, uses the piattelli
labiali. Skillful and important for the working of the wood, the
greater part of their production was tied to of the ceremonies in
which they came made the spoons, arms, amulets, bowls and baskets.
The subjects of their decorations are the animals visibly deform to
you, often in the inner designs it looks at the part of the animal
body like vertebre and the ribs. Known and documented also the
secret societies where to the inner one they constructed to masks
and sticks to you.
ARUAK
The Aruak is an aboriginal population that lives in the Southern
America, represents the amazonian culture and the tribes are
allocated in Colombia, Venezuela and Brasi them.
GUARANĖ
The Guaranė is an ethnic population of the Southern America, between
the more important tribes beyond the Guaranė remembers the Tapč, the
Apapocuva, the Guayakė. The Guaranė is the inhabitants of the
forest, has much complex traditional unacultura, is organizes to you
in great patriarcali families, only lived in of the rectangular huts
sufficient for one family. They believed in the rincarnazione, the
divinity main were Nandevurucu that is Great Padre and Nandecy that
is Our Mother, the sciamano carried out the doctor function. Much
diffusing was the piattello labiale. The Guaranė was agriculturists,
cultivated maize, tobacco and sugar cane. A lot important the
handicraft production of ceramics, woven and skins. Known the urns
from they decorated with red geometric designs du deep white man or
viceversa.
FUEGINI
The population of the Fuegini before extinguishing itself lived the
Earth of the Fire, comprised is the groups arched us of the south
and of the west, it is the Ona of the east. The two etnie I had
various characters somati to us, the Ona were sturdier, higher, with
the lengthened face, while of small stature, you make wide and skin
with a color rossiccio was arched to it to us. As far as the apparel
the Fuegini, always wore dressed ridottissimi or was knots, they
only covered of slippers rudi and a cape of fur in winter. I arched
to us lived of peach and of molluschi, they lived in rooms that were
of the simple ones frasche. The Ona lived of hunting and collection
of fungi and molluschi. The families were patrilineari and the woman
lived of freedom rising, as far as the religion both groups believed
in a supreme being.
SIOUX
The Sioux is an ethnic group of North America. The Sioux was hunters
and maize cultivators, subsequently the passion for the horses
carried them in the praterie to the west of the Mississipi where
they began to hunt the bisonti. The matrilocali families of type
were grouped in clans directed from the old ones, their room were a
simple and poor hut made with coppers, in the strongly meant tribes
had the sciamano. The Sioux found in bisonti the all that that was
they necessary, a lot that it was spoken about culture of the
bisonte, with the skin these animals came made the dressed ones, the
pants for the men, the shoes and also the cribs for the children.
They were they launch the classic axe in stone from combat with
which it had to graze the enemy. The Sioux carried a crown hat made
with the piume of the Aquila, more piume had more was important.
Guido Bissanti
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