siinakíriisi² the individual animal, according to Iquito oral tradition, that [...]

Part of Speech	noun
Root	siinakíriisi
Variant Form(s)	Free Variant: anitáaki sirúuku

• • the individual animal, according to Iquito oral tradition, that leads a given herd of <anitáaki> (White-lipped Peccaries) in its movements through the forest. It is believed that this individual is small in comparison to the rest of the herd, despite its leadership role

  Anthropology Note

  Iquito oral tradition held that this individual was the ‘fisherman’ of the peccary herd, from which stems its other name, <anitáaki síruuku>, because it was he who muddied creeks when the herd arrived at them, which in perspectivalist fashion, was understood to be the leader using <nuúruu> (‘barbasco’) to fish, so that the rest of the herd could eat fish

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  • anitáaki sirúuku leader of White-lipped Peccary herd