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TAPEBA
is a Brazilian tribe in the state of Ceará, also known as Tabeba.
They live in a collective by the Ceará River in the municipality of
Caucaia, at 16 kilometres in a straight line from the city of Fortaleza.
 According to
The Ethnologue, the tribe counted
984 persons in 1995. The Brazilian authorities used 1.150 in 1998. The Tapeba
people have their own language, which unless something is done, might soon
get lost. More information
about the tribe is available
in Portuguese. Help to translate it into English would be appreciated. Contact
Odd de Presno if interested. These photos are
taken when
Kidlink visited
the tribe in August 2001. Dressed in original costumes, they sing and perform
an old dance still used in their village to pass on ancetor knowledge and
values to Tapeba youth. (It is not performed for tourists.)
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