tununu
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Ye'kwana
| ALIV | tununu |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | tunuunu |
| New Tribes | tunuunu |
Pronunciation
Noun
tununu
- the genip tree, Genipa americana or Genipa spruceana
- Synonym: dadi
- a transparent sticky oil or resin extracted from the genip tree, used as a black bodypaint when mixed with soot from the cassava grills (jütadi)
- Synonym: dadi
Usage notes
Some authors identify this tree with Genipa americana, making it identical to dadi; others list it as an unidentified large tree whose oil can be used in the same way, but suggest the two trees and substances are different.
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tununu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “tunuunu”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela][2] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 119
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “caruto (tununu)”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 64–65, 145
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 40: “tununo”