Hovitos

"If they knew we were here, they would've killed us already."

- Barranca on the Hovitos



The Hovitos were the descendants of the Chachapoyans that hid their fertility idol inside the Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors. The Hovitos tribe lived in the mountainous jungles of Peru, and had their own language. Hovitos archers used poison-tipped darts and arrows when hunting and fighting.

History
In 1935, an archaeologist named Forrestal managed to evade the Hovitos and enter the Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors. However, he died because of one of the temple's traps.

In 1936, a tribe of Hovitos helped French archaeologist René Emile Belloq, who spoke Hovitos, track Indiana Jones and killed his treacherous guide Barranca after use him to get to the temple. When Belloq reclaimed the idol from Jones, he showed it off to his Hovitos hunting party, giving time for Jones to escape. While Hovitos warriors gave chase, Jones managed to escape in Jock Lindsey's plane.

After Jones later re-claimed the idol and brought it to the National Museum, several Hovitos, led by Xomec, and aided by Gestapo agent Ilsa Toht, raided the party celebrating the idol's arrival, and stole the idol back, returning it to South America. Indy pursued them, defeated Xomec and Toht, and returned the Chachapoyan Fertility Idol to the museum.

Behind the scenes
The Hovitos tribe appeared in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Although generally in the Indiana Jones franchise, the cultures and the groups that appear in it existed in fact (like the Thuggee and the Nazis), the Hovitos are an exception. The tribe was created for the film, along with the Chachapoyan Fertility Idol.

During the early development of the fourth film, Frank Darabont's script Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods featured a tribe of Hovitos leaded by German doctor Von Grauen, who would rescue Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood at the Peruvian jungle only to later betray them.

Appearances

 * Raiders of the Lost Ark
 * Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods
 * Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods
 * Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods