Umari Food

That authority is based on traditional knowledge and the types of rituals that promotes. He is responsible for security cosmic and group practice, should prevent disease, promote good harvests and ensure enough animals for hunting. It is the principal figure in the rituals of planting, harvesting peanuts, hunting, July 20, the day of San Rafael, patron of the tribe, resurrection and Christmas. All social activity has its Rafu (word), which is the condition for its proper implementation, as mambeadero ceremony, held in the central part of the longhouse, which are ingested daily as a ritual plant sacred coca and snuff. The economic system Huitotos is based on agriculture, the harvesting of certain food and fisheries, involving children and women, and where used harpoons, hooks, machetes or traps, at certain times of year are to organize collective fishing to poison the water with a special plant and to capture dozens of fish. Hunting is another way to get food and is carried out by tribesmen.

Once used the blowgun, spear and other weapons to hunt white, but is now increasingly used the shotgun. The hunter is generally supported by dogs and flashlights for night use, the preferred prey are the pigs, deer and small mammals such as the Borugo and guar. Among the birds get parrots, toucans and macaws. In the vicinity of the houses and fruit trees are grown wild and sweet cassava, which is transformed into "cassava" and is consumed as a drink or domestic ritual. They also plant peppers, avocado, peanuts, alligator, Umari and sometimes corn, which is used to feed the chickens and other domesticated animals, with some fibers of the trees are manufactured beds and woven baskets.