The mapinguary in the writings of Barbosa Rodrigues
- Date of account
- Early twentieth-century circulation of nineteenth-century material
- Location
- Amazonas and western Amazonia, Brazil
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
João Barbosa Rodrigues’s Amazonian writings are frequently invoked in discussions of the mapinguary and related forest-monster traditions. The lead is useful because it may preserve a historical interface between botanical exploration, Indigenous testimony and colonial natural history. It also provides a test case for how later cryptozoologists mine older texts for zoological clues. The precise passage, edition and date should be checked rather than assumed from secondary summaries, since references can be bibliographically unstable and may combine Barbosa Rodrigues with unrelated Amazonian accounts.
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