Nele Kantule

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

Nele Kantule (sitting) in 1927

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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