Nele Kantule Iguibilikinya (1868–1944) was a famous chief and medicine man of the GunaFormerly spelled Kuna or Cuna. indigenous tribe of Panama.
Biography He was born in Putorgandi, in what is today Ustupu Island, Panama. He was a leader of the Guna from early in the twentieth century until his death.Charles D. Kleymeyer, Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development: Cases from Latin America and the Caribbean (1994), p. 93.
His life was described by Erland Nordenskiöld, in his 1938 book on the Guna, An historical and ethnological survey of the Cuna Indians.Posthumous, editor Henry Wassen.Malena Kuss, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History (2004), p. 214.
References
Further reading Picture-writing and other documents by Néle, paramount chief of the Cuna Indians and Reuben Pérez Kantule, his secretary; published by Erland Nordenskiöld (1928–1930) James Howe (1998), A People Who Would Not Kneel: Panama, the United States, and the San Blas Kuna
External links The University of Texas Press Indianer-wiki page Nele Kantule at the Museum of World Culture