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Video with images of Palumeu a village at the junction of Tapanahony and Palumeu river. The inhabitants are Indians of the Trio and Wajana tribes. They build traditional houses of timber and palm tree leaves. Cultural centre of the village is a large circular building where they gather for meetings and festivities. Missionaries have built a church in their attempts to convert the villagers to Christianity. The traditional food of the villagers is cassave bread and a hot pepper fish bouillon called pepre watra. They brew a traditional alcohol drink out of cassave which is called kasiri. Each villager is an expert craftsman in making his own canoe or korjaal for transport on water.