Pïleike was a Wayana village in the Sipaliwini District of Suriname. The village lies across the Lawa River from the island village of Kulumuli, which is considered to lie in French Guiana.[2] As of 2009, the village is abandoned.[1]
Pïleike | |
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  Pïleike Location in Suriname | |
| Coordinates: 3°23′13″N 54°3′11″W / 3.38694°N 54.05306°W | |
| Country | Suriname |
| District | Sipaliwini District |
| Resort (municipality) | Tapanahony |
| Population (2009)[1] | |
• Total | 0 |
History
editPïleike was the village of the influential shaman or pïyai of the same name. When he died in the late 1990s, he ordered his fellow villagers to cross the river and join Kulumuli.[1]
Notes
editReferences
edit- Boven, Karin M. (2006). Overleven in een Grensgebied: Veranderingsprocessen bij de Wayana in Suriname en Frans-Guyana (PDF). Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers.
- Duin, Renzo Sebastiaan (2009). Wayana Socio-political Landscapes: Multi-scalar Regionality and Temporality in Guiana (PDF). University of Florida. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-13. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
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