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Tupinamba
(tuːpɪˈnæmbə, prop. tupinamˈbaː)
Also † Tupinambo.
[Native name; cf. F. Topinambou (1578 in form Tououpinambaoults) and Tupi.]
A group of extinct tribes on the coast of Brazil; a person belonging to one of these tribes. Also attrib.
1810Southey Hist. Brazil I. viii. 229 Nobrega learnt from the Tupinambas that two persons..taught them the use of the mandioc. 1819Shelley Let. 3 Nov. (1964) II. 140 An Otaheitan or a Tupinambo. 1863H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. vii. 285 The old historians relate that the island of Tupinambarána was colonised by a portion of the great Tupí or Tupinámba nation, who were driven from the sea-coast near Pernambuco, by the early Portuguese settlers in the 16th century. 1949Wagley & Galvāo Tenetehara Indians of Brazil i. 5 The Portuguese..found the Island of Maranhão inhabited by the Tupí-Guaraní Tupinambá. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVII. 124/1 The Tupinamba shaman fumigates his rattle with tobacco. |