The Wajapi of the Tupi-guarani cultural-linguistic group are indigenous to the northern Amazonian region. The 580 individuals comprising the present community live in 40 small villages on a specially designated territory in the northeastern Brazilian state of Amapá. The Wajapi have a long history of using vegetable dyes to adorn their bodies and objects with geometric motifs. Over the centuries, they have developed a unique language - a rich blend of graphic and verbal components - that reflects their particular worldview and enables them to hand down essential knowledge about community life. This unique graphic art is known as kusiwa, and its attractive designs are applied with red vegetable dyes extracted from the Amazonian roucou plant and fragrant resins.
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