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  Abipones - LoveToKnow 1911
ABIPONES, a tribe of South American Indians of Guaycuran stock recently inhabiting the territory lying between Santa Fe and St Iago.
In battle the Abipones wore an armour of tapir's hide over which a jaguar's skin was sewn.
She often runs away and hides herself, and thus eludes the bridegroom." Infanticide was systematic, never more than two children being reared in one family, a custom doubtless originating in the difficulty of subsistence.
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 Abipones (Catholic Encyclopedia) - BibleWiki
Their horses, thriving on the grassy plains, soon made the Abipones very dangerous to Spanish colonization by means of raids on the settlements, by which they increased their own stocks of horses and cattle.
These colonies were maintained in spit of the turbulent spirit of the neophytes, which caused incessant trouble with Spanish settlers, and above all, in spite of the murderous onslaughts made by the Tobas and Moobobis, strong and warlike tribes, upon the missions, when these showed signs of material prosperity.
The expulsion of the Jesuits from Paraguay in 1768 and 1769 was the deathknell of the Abipones.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Abipones
This Indian tribe, linguistically of Guaycuru stock, formerly roaming the east side of the Paraná river, was finally concentrated between the Rio Bermejo on the north, the Rio Salado on the south, and the
In 1641 the Abipones had already obtained the horse from the
Spanish colonization by means of raids on the settlements, by which they increased their own stocks of horses and cattle.
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 Abipones
Their horses, thriving on the grassy plains, soon made the Abipones very dangerous to Spanish colonization by means of raids on the settlements, by which they increased their own stocks of horses and cattle.
These colonies were maintained in spit of the turbulent spirit of the neophytes, which caused incessant trouble with Spanish settlers, and above all, in spite of the murderous onslaughts made by the Tobas and Moobobis, strong and warlike tribes, upon the missions, when these showed signs of material prosperity.
The expulsion of the Jesuits from Paraguay in 1768 and 1769 was the deathknell of the Abipones.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/abipones.html   (422 words)

  
 Abipones
They originally occupied the Chaco district of Paraguay, but were driven south by the hostility of the Spaniards and other native tribes.
"With the Abipones," wrote Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man, "when a man chooses a wife, he bargains with the parents about the price.
Martin Dobrizhoffer's Latin Historia de Abiponibus (Vienna, 1784) was translated into English by Sara Coleridge[?], at the suggestion of Robert Southey, in 1822, under the title of An Account of the Abipones (3 vols.).
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ab/Abipones.html   (359 words)

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