Nele Kantule Explained

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]}

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

External links

• The University of Texas Press
• Indianer-wiki page

Notes and 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. Web site: The Door of the Seas and the Key to the Universe. www.gutenberg-e.org. September 15, 2019.