are common in south and even Central America, at least as far north as Honduras, as described by Christopher Columbus when he invaded this latter country during his fourth voyage (1502). This ornament also named part of the Peru seaboard as Costa de la Oreja, from the conspicuously distended ears of the native Chimú. Early Spanish explorers also gave the name Orejones or big-eared to several Amazon tribes. See also Indigenous peoples in Brazil History of Brazil Luzia Notes Sources P. M. A. Ehrenreich. "Ueber die Botocudos." Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 19: 49–82. 1887. Charles C. Mann. 1491, Vintage Books, a division of Random House, New York, 2005. pg. 152–154. A. Metraux. "The Botocudo." Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology 143: i, 531–540. 1946. Hal Langfur, "The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil's Eastern Indians", 1750-1830 Hardcover July 28, 2006 External links Rudolph, Bruno. 1909. Wörterbuch der Botokudensprache. Hamburg: Fr. W. Thaden. Ethnic groups in Brazil Indigenous peoples of Eastern Brazil