Cunan.adj.

1868 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 38 92 The Cunas have established themselves on the shores of the Gulf of Uraba.

1905 C. Thomas Hist. N. Amer. II. i. 7 That area in the Panama section..was under the generalship of Diego de Nicuesa, who located first in the country of the Cuna [Cueva].

1972 Times 10 June 12/1 In the case of the Cuna..most of the tribe migrated in the nineteenth century to the San Blas islands..where they..have an element of autonomy.

1985 New Yorker 14 Jan. 78/2 The Kuna of Panama are among a very few tribal groups who have adapted themselves energetically to modern ways while maintaining their cultural identity.

2002 Rain Forests World 322/1 In 1939 Panama signed a treaty with the Kuna, officially recognizing their land reserve.

1891 D. G. Brinton Amer. Race 174 Alphonse Pinart, who has published the best material on Cuna, is inclined to regard it as affiliated to the Carib.

1911 C. Thomas & J. R. Swanton Indian Langs. Mexico & Central Amer. (U.S. Bureau of Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 44) 96 With Cuna end the languages of isthmian America on the south, the next language (Choco) being included geographically in the continent of South America.

1934 L. E. E. Joyce Introd. L. Wafer's New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus of Amer. p. xvi ‘Huaka’, the word still used by modern Cuna for ‘stranger’, with an inimical implication.

1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating v. 94 Cuna..not only has many metaphors but admits new ones readily.

2009 J. Howe Chiefs, Scribes, & Ethnographers 276 Counting money in Kuna is, in particular, complicated and confusing.

1868 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 38 92 Every traveller is heard speaking of the ‘Indians’ of the Tuyra villages, whereas only Spanish is spoken therein, the Cuna and Darien dialects being totally unknown.

1891 D. G. Brinton Amer. Race 174 The Cuna language does not seem to be positively connected with any other stock.

1905 C. Thomas Hist. N. Amer. II. i. 7 The Panama district..was occupied chiefly by the Cuna Indians.

1946 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 12 187/2 The Cuna noun neither distinguishes between different genders, nor between animate and inanimate categories.

1976 Scotsman 20 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 1/3 It was manned by Charlie Smith, our first Cuna Indian. Like most of his tribe, he was short and stocky, with powerful chest, shoulders and arms, but with curiously thin legs.

2002 Rain Forests World 321 Kuna women are famous for their molas, hand-stitched cloths.