Omagua

Portuguese advances in the Amazon basin destroyed Omagua and Yurimagua tribes.

1693 2001

Brazil term the moon _jacy_, "our mother," and the same name occurs in the Omagua and other members of this linguistic stock.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

Expedition in Search of El Dorado and Omagua in 1560-61, tr.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Jesuit Father Singler of the Omagua mission with a few Indian companions reached the main mission of the Caumari and later that of the Peba, who received him with good will and presented him with their most precious gifts, viz. jars filled with the deadly curari poison used by the hunters for tipping their blowgun arrows.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

In 1835 it contained a population of about 2000 souls, representing many tribes — Pano, Omagua, Yameo, Conibo, Setebo,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Omagua means flat-head in Peruvian, and these people have the singular custom of squeezing the foreheads of new-born babies between two flat pieces of wood, to make them, as they say, resemble the full moon.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

These examples are taken from the Guarany, the Omagua, Shawanese, Miami, Maco, and Ojibbeway idioms.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

It is remarkable, however, that the names of the sun and moon are sometimes found to be identical in languages, the grammatical construction of which is entirely different; I may cite as examples the Guarany and the Omagua, * languages of nations formerly very powerful.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

We must not confound mapara with mapaja; this last word signifies, in Maypure and Tamanac, the papaw or melon-tree, no doubt on account of the sweetness of its fruit, for mapa means in the Maypure, as well as in the Peruvian and Omagua tongues, the honey of bees.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

It is remarkable, however, that the names of the sun and moon are sometimes found to be identical in languages, the grammatical construction of which is entirely different; I may cite as examples the Guarany and the Omagua, * languages of nations formerly very powerful.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814