Nele Kantule (sitting) in 1927 Nele Kantule Iguibilikinya (1868–1944) was a famous chief and medicine man of the Kuna indigenous tribe of Panama .
Biography
He was born in Putorgandi, in what is today Ustupu Island , Panama. He was a leader of the Kuna from early in the twentieth century until his death.[ 1]
His life was described by Erland Nordenskiöld , in his 1938 book on the Kuna, An historical and ethnological survey of the Cuna Indians .[ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
References
^ Charles D. Kleymeyer, Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development: Cases from Latin America and the Caribbean (1994), p. 93.
^ Posthumous, editor Henry Wassen.
^ Malena Kuss, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History (2004), p. 214.
^ "The Door of the Seas and the Key to the Universe" . www.gutenberg-e.org . Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
Further reading
Picture-writing and other documents by Néle, paramount chief of the Cuna Indians and Reuben Pérez Kantule, his secretary; published by Erland Nordenskiöld (1928–1930)James Howe (1998), A People Who Would Not Kneel: Panama, the United States, and the San Blas Kuna
External links
International National Artists Other
