anitáaki masiiri‘fleeing White-Lipped Peccary’ style of weaving [...]
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anitáaki masiiriwa
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anitáaki masiiri
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Free Variant: anitáaki amákɨɨri
‘fleeing White-Lipped Peccary’ style of weaving <iitaari>, ‘crisneja’ thatch, in which the <ijáwɨɨmɨ> (‘irapay’) palm frond stems that wrap around the palm wood lath are tied in a way that yields a herringbone pattern running along the lath
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anitáaki‘huangana’, the larger of the two peccary species, superficially similar to a wild pig. The <anitáaki> was traditionally a very important game animal