yadakadu

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Ye'kwana[edit]

Variant orthographies
ALIV yadakadu
Brazilian standard yadaakadu
New Tribes yadaacadu
historical ad hoc iarakaru
A waja decorated with eight repetitions of the yadakadu pattern.

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Cariban *tjawaraka, *tjawarakaru (spider).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

yadakadu

  1. the wedge-capped capuchin monkey, Cebus olivaceus
  2. the tufted capuchin monkey, Sapajus apella
  3. a zoomorphic basket design representing this monkey seen from the side on all fours, distinguished from wadishidi by the fact that its tail curls down rather than up
  4. spider

References[edit]

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yadakadu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “yadakadu”, 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 125
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “yada:kadu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “yadākadu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “iarakaru”, 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 55, 100, 115, 195–197, 215:iarakuru