Matha Banness

Matha Banness was a traveller to Jacuruku who recorded their experiences in the book, In Jacuruku. Banness described the use of tattoos amongst the natives as protection against illness, curses, and the supernatural.Blood and Bone, Chapter 2, Epigraph Banness also attempted to commune with nature like the "simple people of this country" until a far away voice broke into the author's dreamy solitude.Blood and Bone, Chapter 10, Epigraph
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