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Yine
Interviews
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Folk-art and Festivals |
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Interview with : Sra. Yanet Zorrilla
Interviewers : Iva Smutny/Anja Stijnen
Date : 28-June-01 (15:30 – 16:45)
Painted textiles
The cloth used is made from yuta. First, you cook the yuquilla
(similar to yuca), using this dark yellow water you paint the design
you wish to use three times so it does not disappear. Then, you paint
with black mud from the forest mixed with yuquilla water.
To obtain a brown color squeeze the leaf from the sanipanga plant
along with water, after about 5 minutes the color will appear.
Charms/Ornaments
The sara-sara seed, it can be black, white or gray in color. Cook the
seeds for an hour then poke a hole in them with a needle.
The huayruro seed, larger than the sara-sara seed, the red seeds are
females and the red and black seeds are males. A necklace with red
seeds indicates that a woman is single, while a necklace with red and
black seeds indicates she is married.
Fifteen years ago girls went out in skirts that had typical designs on
them, painted with mud, wearing necklaces of sara–sara with huayruro
(the cord is made of cetico (Cecropia sp.). Their skin was painted
with huíto. The green huíto seeds produce a black color. At first a
transparent color appears that is barely noticeable, then after a day
the black color appears.
Festivals
• 02 -July : Festival of Fitzcarrald in Boca Manu
The students from Diamante present a typical dance, dressed in outfits
painted with mud.
• 03-July : Sports Competition
• 10-July : Anniversary of the founding of Diamante (founded in 1976)
The Yine invite other communities, there is a children’s dance
performance and a sports competition. They drink masato and eat juanes
and pataraska.
• 28-July : National Festival
All women cook and then take their food to the center of the
community. The men have to get in line and taste something that each
woman has made. Then men and women form a line to drink masato. There
are football and volleyball games. In the community center everyone
goes to drink masato and to dance (until the masato is no more). In
the same way each other festival is celebrated.
• 24-December: Christmas
At midnight you drink hot chocolate. At night gifts are given to the
children donated to the community by different businesses.
• Marriages
Weddings do not exist; people do not marry, but rather live together,
when a couple gets together the entire family celebrates and drinks
masato.
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