Nele Kantule

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

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

  1. Charles D. Kleymeyer, Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development: Cases from Latin America and the Caribbean (1994), p. 93.
  2. Posthumous, editor Henry Wassen.
  3. Malena Kuss, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History (2004), p. 214.
  4. http://www.gutenberg-e.org/gdi01/frames/fgall01.html

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