The Tupi-Guarani mythology describes the caipora as a creature who lives inside the forest. Caipora’s feet are turned backwards in order to deceive trackers.
According to the Encyclopedia Mythica the Caipora is "a small Indian covered by fur, who owns the hunt and appreciates smoke and cachaça (Brazilian drink) or a small preasant that appears in a wood-pig". (Micha F. Lindemans).
Patricia Gaspar plays Caipora in the brazilian children's novel Castelo Rá Tim Bum. There is a song by Pena Branca and Xavantinho called Caipora. Check out Rá Tim Bum's website by clicking here then just click on "Caipora" in the list at the bottom of the screen. The lyrics follow:
Caipora
Dentro da mata
ela mora, adora
a mata para morá
prá ver a caipora basta assobiá
E quando ela aparece
parece que é
prá ficar
quando menos se espera vai embora
E se adivinhá
o que ela perguntá
ela deixa saudade em qualquer lugar
Caipora
não vai embora
Caipora
viola chora
ó Caipora
sempre tem uma estória prá se contar
Ama a fauna e a flora
as cochoeiras, os matagá
e se a viola chora ela quer cantá
E quando a gente implora
sente saudade pr'ela voltá
ela aparece agora
basta assobiá.
Xico Stockinger died aged 89. His work will certainly remain an icon specially in Brazil.studies at the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios in 1946. He met Bruno Giorgi, frequenting the artist's studio at the former hospice of Praia Vermelha between 1947 and 1950. He also associated with Oswaldo Goeldi, Marcelo Grassmann and Maria Leontina. He executed caricatures and political sketches for newspapers. In 1954, he moved to Porto Alegre, to work as a layout artist for the newspaper A Hora. During this period, he began to execute woodcuts. In 1956, the year he was naturalised as a Brazilian citizen, he was elected chairman of the Associação Rio-Grandense de Artes Plásticas Francisco Lisboa, a position which he held in 1957 and in 1978. He was the founder and first director of the Atelier Livre da Prefeitura de Porto Alegre, in 1961, and the director of the Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malagoli - Margs, as well as of the Arts Division of the Department of Culture of the State Secretariat Of Education and Culture, in 1967. Together with Vasco Prado, he gave a live model sculpture class at the Margs in 1985. In 1994, he received the title of honorary citizen of Porto Alegre, and in 1997, the Ministry of Culture Prize in the area of the visual arts.
