mado jedü
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Ye'kwana
[edit]ALIV | mado jedü |
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Brazilian standard | mado fedö |
New Tribes | mado jedö |
historical ad hoc | mado fedi |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Basket_tray_with_mado_fedi_%28jaguar_face%29_motif%2C_Yekuana%2C_Paragua_River%2C_Venezuela%2C_undated_-_Spurlock_Museum%2C_UIUC_-_DSC05917.jpg/220px-Basket_tray_with_mado_fedi_%28jaguar_face%29_motif%2C_Yekuana%2C_Paragua_River%2C_Venezuela%2C_undated_-_Spurlock_Museum%2C_UIUC_-_DSC05917.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]From mado (“jaguar”) + jedü (“face”), literally “jaguar’s face”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- a basket design pattern resembling two square brackets linked by a center line (see image)
References
[edit]- 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 110–111, 115, 186–188, 206: “mado fedi”