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The Best Attractions In Aimores

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The Aimoré are one of several South American peoples of eastern Brazil called Botocudo in Portuguese , in allusion to the wooden disks or tembetás worn in their lips and ears. Some called themselves Nac-nanuk or Nac-poruk, meaning sons of the soil. The last Aimoré group to retain their language are the Krenak. The other peoples called Botocudo were the Xokleng and Xeta.The Brazilian chief who was presented to King Henry VIII in 1532 wore small bones hung from his cheeks and from the lower lip a semi-precious stone the size of a pea. These were the marks of great bravery. When the Portuguese adventurer Vasco Fernando Coutinho reached the east coast o...
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