wo'mo ansai
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Ye'kwana[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From wo'mo (“necklace”) + ansai (possessed form of ansa (“necklace”)), thus literally ‘ansa-necklace of the wo’mo necklace’.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
- a kind of traditional necklace
References[edit]
- 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, page 46: “womo ansai”