sticks are inserted in the earlobes at the age of fourteen. As time passes, the size of these adornments is increased for the rest of their lives. In 1996 the Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura stayed and recorded with the Xavante people, who are featured on their album Roots. A small number of Xavante even travelled to São Paulo to partake in Sepultura's Barulho Contra Fome (Noise Against Hunger) concert in 1998 that marked the start of their tour for their follow-up album, Against, where their presence was featured in the music video for the song "Choke". Further reading Seth Garfield, Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937–1988, Duke University Press, 2001: D.G.Fabré, Beyond the River of the Dead, Robert Hale Limited, London, 1963 Roots (Sepultura album) - the Xavante tribe can be heard singing in the song "Itsari". References External links Instituto Socioambiental Encyclopedia of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil Xavante entry at SIL International Great Web of Percy Harrison Fawcett Cultural Survival: David Maybury-Lewis, Xavante Archive Documents Vital Culture Laura Graham, Effects of Modernization on the Xavante https://archive.org/details/WAIA_Part2_J_2004 Rites of the Xavante Indigenous peoples in Brazil Indigenous peoples of Eastern Brazil