Manatee
Manatí
Object Details
| Subject Language | Rama |
| Language PID(s) | ailla:119554 |
| Title [Indigenous] | Paalpa |
| Language of Indigenous Title | rma |
| Title | Manatee |
| Language Community | |
| Country(ies) | Nicaragua |
| Place Created | Managua |
| Date Created | 1985-06 |
| Description [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Description | |
| Description | Traditional way of hunting manatee with harpoon. They sink the dory to put it in and then bail it out to transport the manatee. The meat is cooked and fried; it is eaten with breadkind and distributed to everybody. The man who killed the manatee can go sell a piece of the meat to town to buy other food. KW: traditional hunting, animal, manatee, foor, culinary culture, material culture. Notebook II, pgs. 40-43 |
| Genres | Narrative |
| Source Note | |
| References | |
| Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Rigby, Nora (Speaker) Tibbitts, Bonny (Researcher) |
| Contributor(s) Corporate / Role |
Media Files
There are 2 objects in this resource| Object | File Types | Access Level |
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| RMA001R026I001.mp3 | audio/mp3 | 1 |
| RMA001R026I001.wav | 1 |
