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Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Noun
wadishidi
- the white-bellied spider monkey, Ateles belzebuth
- a zoomorphic basket design representing this monkey seen from the side on all fours, distinguished from yadakadu by the fact that its tail curls up rather than down
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wadishidi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “wadishidi”, 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] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 125
- 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 97–101, 106, 115, 117, 194, 234, 242: “warishidi”
- Carlsson, Erica (2012) Understanding Influences on Harvesting Species of the Genus Heteropsis and Basket Production by Indigenous Ye’kwana of the Orinoco Basin, Venezuela, University of Florida, page 23: “wajishidi [sic]”