Introduction:
In
this essay I am going to write about the waorani people and the Amazon forests
the main things I am going to write about is:
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1st
animals/plants that live there/what they grow?
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2nd weapons
what they use?
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3rd hunting’
haw they hunt?
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4th family
life’ what it is like?
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5th housing’
what it is like?
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6th clothing’
what they wore?
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7th my
conclusion’ summary!
ANIMALS/PLANTS
To start of there is many types of animals one in
particular is a woolly monkey the waorani people love to hunt them and especially
to eat them, the other kind of things they like to eat are: Curacao a type of
wild chicken, then there’s peccaries a special name for pigs, there’s many
kinds of different birds, there’s a harpi eagles which protect the waorani
people if something is close. Then moving on to the trees there’s small, cotton
wool plants, potato stems, bamboo there’s one thing I forgot to mention is that
the waorani people are especially scarred of jaguars there a type of tigers/
leopards…
Weapons
The waorani people make different kinds of
weaponry they make axes which they get a piece of wood and get it into shape then find a
piece of stone or metal and bang it into the wood to make an axe which they use
to fall trees… the next is a curare a special name for a vine which has
poisonous bark, used to make poisonous
blow darts the darts are made from the spine of vine leaves……..
Spears they use to kill
there enemies up close so to get a
better attack if something like the Jaguar comes along and they defend there property
with a spear.
HUNTING
In the forest people hunt for a living.
They have many ways of
hunting them they mainly hunt woolly monkeys for 2 reasons 1 to eat the other
for fur…
To hunt they have to learn different tactics for
e.g. using a whistle to attract animals and they make there own weapons as I
wrote above.
But there is one thing that they are scared of
when they hunt animals animals hunt them like the JAGUAR…
JAGUARS are big wild cats
that eat anything, for e.g. they hunt pigs/chickens but where ever the people
hunt the jaguar is normally there watching.
FAMILY LIFE
In a family life you have to help each other the
young girls learn to crop and plant and the young boys learn to hunt and make
weapons.
They stay in one place for a few months then move
because the place where they were would have been used up and it would probably
contain a disease so the woman and girls collect the bottoms of trees and plant
them different kind of trees because it contains potatoes. The name for
potatoes where they come from is cassava or manico…
HOUSEING
In an average house it contains a family of 12
and probably more to come they have a fire in the middle the house is made from
bamboo and a bit of stringy type it has a alarm a harpi eagle which respects
the waorani people. They also make there own beadings well that’s what the
woman do they stitch with bamboo together and wind it through while the girls
watch.
CLOTHING
The
clothing that they where is only something that goes
round there waist same with woman as well there isn’t a lot of things that I
can say because that’s all they where…
CONCLUSION
Overall I think that they have many in ventures
and doing this project was fun to do and
I hope to do more things like this in the future because I think for people who
live in forests have there way of living and make good use of it by learning
about things by there selves…
The end
By Sarah white 90a
