yadakadu

Ye'kwana

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

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɟaɾ̠aːkaɾ̠u]

Noun

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

• 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”