Nele Kantule

Nele Kantule Iguibilikinya (1868–1944) was a famous chief and medicine man of the Guna[1] indigenous tribe of Panama.

Biography

He was born in Putorgandi, in what is today Ustupu Island, Panama. He was a leader of the Guna from early in the twentieth century until his death.[2]

His life was described by Erland Nordenskiöld, in his 1938 book on the Guna, An historical and ethnological survey of the Cuna Indians.[3][4][5]

References

  1. ^ Formerly spelled Kuna or Cuna.
  2. ^ Charles D. Kleymeyer, Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development: Cases from Latin America and the Caribbean (1994), p. 93.
  3. ^ Posthumous, editor Henry Wassen.
  4. ^ Malena Kuss, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History (2004), p. 214.
  5. ^ "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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