Domestic Life and Life Style

The Yanomammo live in villages uasually constisting of their children and extented families. Villages sizes vary, but usually contain between 50 and 400 people. In a largely communial system, the entire vilage lives under a common roof called a shabono. They have a characterisic of an oval shape,  with open grounds in the center measuring an average of 100 yards.  They are built from jungles of leaves, vines and truncks, but they are susceptible to heavy damage from rains, winds and insect infestation. Vilagers build new shabonos every 1 - 2 years. The Yanomamo depend on the rainforest; they use slash and burn horticulture, grow bannanas, gather fruit and hunt animals and fish. The Yanomammo are known as hunters, fishers and hoticulturists. The women cultivate plants and cassava (a root vegetable) as their main crops. Men do the heavy work of cleaning the areas of forest for gadens.  Another food sorce for the Yanomammo tribe are grubs. Traditionally, they do not farm. Amazingly, they do not eat or add salt in their diet as it leads to blood pressure.


The Yanomamo celebrate a good harvest with a big feast to which nearby villages are invited. They gather huge amounts of food, which helps them to maintain a good reationship with other villages.


Language
There are many dialects of the language, such that people from different villages cannot always understand each other. Linguists ( a person who study language as a whole) believe that the Yanomammo language is unrelated to any other South American indigenous languages. The origins of the language are unknown.

Cassava



A Yanomammo Shabono