Almost 7,000 indians from the Wounaan settlement share the jungle territory of Darien with their brothers Emberá. The two cultures are very similar in the manner they live, but speak two different languages. The Wounaan work the same hand crafts as Embera’s with the same extraordinary quality. Women dress with a colorful squirt only paruma and are usually topless, their bodies painted with intricated designs red and black, designs in reddish and black tonalities they obtain from achiote (special seasoning) and the dye they extract from a plant named jaguar. Their settlements are generally located near swamps, wherein they fish and collect shrimps and oysters. For such purposes they use traps, arc and arrows, lance and blowpipes charged with deadly arrows




