territory. The last remnants of the Eastern Botocudo are the Krenak. In 2010, there were 350 Krenak living in the state of Minas Gerais. Subdivisions The Aimoré consisted of dozens of tribes, who spoke either dialects or closely related languages. Some of the important tribes are: Prajé or Pragé - Pernambuco Takruk-krak or Takrukrak Crecmum or Krekmún - Bahia Etwét or Ituêto - Minas Gerais Futi-krak Gerén or Gueren - Bahia Gut-Craque or Gutucrac - Minas Gerais Mekmek - Minas Gerais Minyã Yirúgn or Minhagirun Minhagiran - Espírito Santo Nakrehê or Naque Erehê / Nacrehe - Minas Gerais & Espirito Santo Naque-namu Naque-Nhepe Naknianuk or Naknyanúk / Nacnhanuc - Minas Gerais Customs The Botocudos were nomadic hunter-gatherers, wandering naked in the woods and living from the forest. Their implements and domestic utensils were all of wood; their only weapons were reed spears and bows and arrows. Their dwellings were rough shelters of leaf and bast, seldom high. Their only musical instrument was a small bamboo nose flute. They attributed all the blessings of life to the day-fire (Sun) and all evil to night-fire (Moon). At the graves of the dead, they kept fires burning for some days to scare away evil spirits, and, during storms and eclipses, arrows were shot into the sky to drive away demons. The most conspicuous feature of the Botocudos was the tembeitera, a wooden plug or disk which is worn in the lower lip and the lobe of the ear. This disk, made of the specially light and carefully dried wood of the barriguda tree (Chorisia ventricosa), which was called by the natives themselves embur, whence Augustin Saint-Hilaire suggested that this could be the probable derivation of their name Aimboré (1830). It is worn only in the under-lip, now chiefly by women, but formerly by men also. The operation for preparing the lip begins often as early as the eighth year, when an initial boring is made by a hard pointed stick, and gradually extended by the insertion of larger and larger disks or plugs, sometimes at last as much as 10 cm in diameter. Notwithstanding the lightness of the wood the tembeitera weighs down the lip, which at first sticks out horizontally and at last becomes a mere ring of skin around the wood. Ear-plugs are also worn, of such size as to distend the lobe down to the shoulders. Ear-ornaments of like nature