kayuwai

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV kayuwai
Brazilian standard kayuuwai
New Tribes cayuuwai

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kayuwai

  1. the neotropic cormorant, Phalacrocorax brasilianus

Descendants

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  • Sanumá: kaiyuwe[1]

References

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  • Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “kayuwai”, 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]‎[1] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 122
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “kahiuwai”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
  1. ^ Colchester, Marcus (1981) “Ecological Modelling and Indigenous Systems of Resource Use: Some Examples from the Amazon of South Venezuela” in Antropologica, volume 55, page 59