Anunsu

Anunsu is one of the names recorded for the Nambikwara, an Indigenous people of the Amazon whose lands lie along the upper Guaporé and the Juruena in what is now Mato Grosso. The best-known collective name is an outside term from the Tupi language family, formed from words meaning "ear" and "hole" and commonly translated as "pierced ear." The people form a nation of many smaller bands, each with its own name and identity, so a single label hides much variety.

Their country is a mix of open grassland, savanna woodland and rain forest, which the bands crossed on seasonal rounds of hunting, gathering and gardening. Written accounts date first contact with Europeans to 1770, some years after the Portuguese founded Vila Bela on the upper Guaporé in 1752 as the capital of Mato Grosso.