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Motilon|məʊtɪˈləʊn|
Also Motilone. Pl. Motilon, Motilones.
[Sp., of Amer. Ind. origin.]
A Cariban Indian people of Colombia; a member of this people; also, their language. Also attrib.
1913P. J. Eder Colombia xii. 186 The white settlers have at times been driven away by the onslaughts of the Motilones Indians, who dwell in the forests of the Eastern Cordillera to the east. 1937T. Rourke Tyrant of Andes 26 The Motilones are no myth. They..have been sending the six-foot arrows flying from the bush into the American..geologists working for the oil companies. 1949L. S. & E. Judson Let's go to Colombia v. 213 The Motilone Indians. Of fierce Carib origin the Motilones were never subdued by the Spaniards. 1950J. A. Mason in J. H. Steward Handbk. S. Amer. Indians VI. 232 The Cariban affinities of Motilón..have always been accepted. 1957Encycl. Brit. XXI. 80/1 They [sc. the Carib] reached the Andes on the west and small groups entered Colombia (Motilon, Opon and Carare Indians). 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. iii. 37 The Motilones in Colombia have borrowed the Spanish word purísima ‘most pure’ from the phrase María purísima ‘Mary, most pure’, but have given it the meaning of ‘the devil’. 1965Moser & Taylor Cocaine Eaters iv. ii. 151 The arrow is the most treasured object a Motilon possesses. Ibid. iii. 157 We had been intrigued by the question of death amongst the Motilon. Ibid. 179 The Motilon chiefs. 1968G. Anthony Colombia: Land of Tomorrow xiii. 160 It was left as a souvenir of a raid by the Motilone Indians... The Motilones, who live along the mountainous border between Colombia and Venezuela, are still amongst the fiercest and least-known of all Colombia's Indians. |