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JEVEROS (JEBEROS, JIBAROS, JIVAROS Or GIVAROS) , a tribe of See also:South See also:American See also:Indians on the upper Maranon, See also:Peru, where they wander in the forests. The tribe has many branches and there are frequent tribal See also:wars, but they have always See also:united against a See also:common enemy. Juan de Velasco declares them to be faithful, See also:noble and amiable. They are brave and warlike, and though upon the See also:conquest of Peru they temporarily submitted, a See also:general insurrection in 1599 won them back their See also:liberty. Curious dried human heads, supposed to have been See also:objects of See also:worship, have been found among the Jeveros (see Ethnol. See also:Soc. Trans. 1862, W. Bollaert).

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