CONIBOS, a tribe of South American Indians belonging to the Panoan (q.v.) linguistic stock. The Conibos, one of the largest tribes of this group, live to-day on the upper Ucayali river in the vicinity of Cumarea. By tradition their former home was further south on the lower Urubamba. They are a sedentary, agricultural people, living in large rectangular thatched houses. They make excellent cotton textiles and beautifully decorated pottery, and are expert in the management of their dug-out canoes. The dead were formerly buried in large urns, beneath the floors of the houses. Monogamy is the rule except for chiefs, and each girl prior to marriage has to go through an artificial defloration ceremony.
See W. C. Farabee, "Indian Tribes of eastern Peru" (Papers of the Peabody Museum. of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard university, vol. x.) .