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

  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. ↑ "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
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