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CHIQUITOS (Span. " very small ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 239 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHIQUITOS (Span. " very small ") , a See also:group of tribes in the See also:province of See also:Santa Cruz de la Sierra, See also:Bolivia, and between the See also:head See also:waters of the See also:rivers See also:Mamore and Itenez. When their See also:country was first invaded they fled into the forests, and the Spaniards, coming upon their huts, the doorways of which are built excessively See also:low, supposed them to be dwarfs: hence the name. They are in fact well formed and powerful, of See also:middle height and of an See also:olive complexion. They are an agricultural See also:people, but made a gallant resistance to the Spaniards for nearly two centuries. In 1691, however, they made the Jesuit missionaries welcome, and rapidly became civilized. The Chiquito See also:language was adopted as the means of communication among the converts, who soon numbered 50,000, representing nearly fifty tribes. Upon the See also:expulsion of the See also:Jesuits in 1767 the Chiquitos became decadent, and now number See also:short of 20,000. Their houses, regularly ranged in streets, are built of adobes thatched with coarse grass. They manufacture See also:copper boilers for making See also:sugar and understand several trades, weave ponchos and hammocks and make See also:straw hats. They are fond of singing and dancing, and are a See also:gentle-mannered and hospitably folk. The group is now divided into See also:forty tribes.

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