1986, Gilberto Freyre, Casa-grande E Senzala, Univ. of California Press (→ISBN), page 126:
When it is quite soft, it is crushed or grated and the dough is placed in long conical tipitis made of plaited embira or taquara-cane fiber. These tipitis are a yard and a half to two yards or so in length and, after they have been well filled, ...
2014, Nigel Smith, Palms and People in the Amazon, Springer (→ISBN), page 218:
Women make tipitis from jacitara in many parts of the Brazilian Amazon, [...]. Tipitis are not encountered in the Peruvian Amazon because farmers in western ...
