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tipitis

English translation: tool for pressing (manioc (pulp)) OR manioc press

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Portuguese term or phrase:tipitis
English translation:tool for pressing (manioc (pulp)) OR manioc press
Entered by: veratek

09:13 Oct 19, 2007
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
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.
zabrowa
Local time: 07:28
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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veratek
Brazil
Local time: 02:28
Grading comment
hm, maybe 'manioc press'?
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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




    Reference: http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/revista/genteterra.htm
veratek
Brazil
Local time: 02:28
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
hm, maybe 'manioc press'?
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