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GUAYCURUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 666 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GUAYCURUS , a tribe of See also:

South See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians on the See also:

PARAGUAY

Paraguay. The name has been used generally of all the mounted Indians of Gran See also:

CHACO

Chaco. The Guaycurus are a See also:

WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild, fierce See also:

PEOPLE

people, who paint their bodies and go naked. They are fearless See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse-men and are occupied chiefly in See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle rearing.

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