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Science - Anthropology / indigenous handicrafts | | Portuguese term or phrase: tipitis | FROM A Guajajara TEXT:
Os homens Guajajara fazem artesanato. A madeira para fazer o arco, nós vamos buscar no mato, tiramos a casca branca da madeira e trazemos só o miolo. Quando fazemos a flecha, colocamos em sua ponta um pedaço de ferro ou uma ponta de faca. Os homens também fazem maracás, cestas, quibanos, peneiras, vassouras, tipitis, bolsa de embira, que se chama mocó, pacará, etc.
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The Guajajara men make handcrafts. We get the wood to make a bow in the the forest; we pull the white bark from the
wood and keep only the core. When we make the arrow,
we put a piece of iron or the tip of a knife on the point . The men also make rattles, baskets, big and small sieves, brooms, XXX , mocó (embira bags), pacará, etc. |
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| | tool for pressing (manioc (pulp)) | Explanation:
* press or pressing tool - also
* squeezer
Utilizavam matérias-primas vegetais na confecção de cordões, cordas, fios, espremedores de polpa de mandioca (tipiti), peneiras, abanadores de fogo, esteiras, diversos tipos de cestos, gaiolas e armadilhas de pesca.
This vessel
class may also have been used in the roasting of
shelled maize or the pressed and washed manioc
pulp in the final step to detoxification.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/JCA/espensh.pdf
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Local time: 02:43
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9 mins confidence:   tool for pressing (manioc (pulp))
Explanation:
* press or pressing tool - also
* squeezer
Utilizavam matérias-primas vegetais na confecção de cordões, cordas, fios, espremedores de polpa de mandioca (tipiti), peneiras, abanadores de fogo, esteiras, diversos tipos de cestos, gaiolas e armadilhas de pesca.
This vessel
class may also have been used in the roasting of
shelled maize or the pressed and washed manioc
pulp in the final step to detoxification.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/JCA/espensh.pdf
Reference: http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/revista/genteterra.htm
| veratek
France
Local time: 02:43
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 4
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