Howard Reid Audio Cassettes

Casetes de Audio de Howard Reid

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Subject LanguageHup
Language PID(s)ailla:119685
Title [Indigenous]
Language of Indigenous Title
TitleHoward Reid Audio Cassettes
Language Community
Country(ies)Brazil
Place Created
Date Created1974-XX-XX
Description [Indigenous]
Language of Indigenous Description
DescriptionAudio recordings made by Howard Reid during visits to Hupd'äh communities. Originally recorded on open-reel tape, they were later transferred to audio cassettes. These cassettes were digitized in September 2018. Notes on the content of the recordings:
4A Story 1 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 00:01-05:20. Kagnteh story. Dabucuri of fruit women mustn't see. Night came and they bathed. Kagnteh people and Hupdeh ordinary people do exchange. There were lots of children and people went up high.
4A Story 2 (Tah Deh, Tsai and 1 or 2 others) 05:30-09:50. Possible kao [chile] spell. Children's cure, wash fat. Recording level very low.
4A Story 3 (Tah Deh, 2 people from Tah Deh) 10:00-14:10. Probably kao spell [chile].
4A Story 4 (Tah Deh, 2 people from Tah Deh) 14:40-23:00. Toucans eat Kagnteh present becomes Door Cha! [bitter children]. Includes old jaguar. Possibly a fragment of Biyoo Kagnteh saga
4A Story 5 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 23:05-35:45. Kagnteh story. Drink beer and sing.
4B Story 1 (Tah Deh, Tah Deh narrators) 00:01-10:10. Kagnteh story.
4B Story 2 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 10:15-17:28. Mohoi Baktup [deer spirit] story.
4B Story 3 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 17:40-25:00. Jaguar story.
4B Story 4 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 25:02-33:20. Vulture story. Vulture eats rotten fish. Dresses up in people's clothes to get a wife. Kills anteater. Probably Waah Ut. Vulture thorn.
4B Story 5 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 33:14-45:31. Kagnteh story. Tape runs out; maybe not end of story.
5A Story 1 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 00:10-14:13. Kagnteh story. Possible continued from 4B story 5. Blows spells. Bitter child catches eagles in fish nets. Thunderman adventures with bitter children. Old jaguar. Drink beer. All killed.
5A Story 2 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 14:35-22:00. Ancestors' birth story. Women are given baskets. Men receive blowpipes, bows and arrows and loincloths. Kagnteh gave people coca to eat. Nobody dies. Description of the life of the ancestors/birth people Hibahteinde.
5A Story 3 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 22:10-29:30. Teeth in the swamp. Women eat this. Bor Wudn [old manioc mash man] story. Gives people various manioc products. Also gives tobacco, coca and kau [chile]. Tape break at 23:00.
5B Story 1 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 00:20-37:00. Long ago the toucans married women and abandoned women in the forest. They meet Popoh, a wood quail, who looks after them. Women go down. Old jaguar, who is Wogn Wudn, path. Popoh says don't go down it. Women enter Wogn's house. Wogn kills them, one is pregnant. Wogn bites them open to reveal bitter child [Kagnteh]. The exploits of bitter child and battles with Old Jaguar. PhD thesis myth 1.
7A Story 1 (Veh Deh, Messias) 00:20-27:00. Bitter child Popoh guides women to Wogn's path. Don't go down there. Women get pregnant. Jaguar licks child. Bitter! They go to collect ants. Then sing and do dabucuri food exchange ritual. They catch eagles in fish nets and kill them and take their feathers. Then sing and eat. Bad motor noise on tape.
7B Story 1 (Veh Deh, Messias) 00:01-07:00. People drink beer. Do dabucuri with toucans.
7B Story 2 (Veh Deh, Messias) 07:15-15:45. Dohai [Rotten woman] story. Book 1 story 4.
7B Story 3 (Veh Deh, Messias) 16:00-29:15. Cannibal giant armadillo wooden person. Heavy motor noise. Book 1 story 5. See PhD thesis.
7B Story 4 (Veh Deh, Messias) 29:20-38:20. Cannibal rainbow story. Also involves armadillos. Book 1 story 6. See PhD thesis.
8A Story 1 (Veh Deh, Messias) 00:05-06:20. Kagnteh story. Motor noise.
8A Story 2 (Veh Deh, Messias) 06:30-14:00. Jaguar bites and vultures. Motor noise.
8A Story 3 (Veh Deh, Messias) 14:00-20:33. Another biting jaguar story. Man is hungry and goes looking for rubber tree fruit [mót]. Witak bird warns of arrival. Possibly in Ph.D. thesis.
8A Story 4 (Veh Deh, Messias) 20:40-34:20. Bor Wudn [Old Manioc Mash Man] story. Gives people manioc, cassava, coca, tabacco, fish. Mentions fishhooks and Bor Wudn's daughter. Heavy rain at end of story. Another version narrated by Casimiro in PhD thesis story 2.
8B Story 1 (Veh Deh, Messias and 1 other person) 00:10-15:50. Wah Pooh Wudn [Old ? Vulture] story. Man went fishing and blows spells. Book 2.
8B Story 2 (Veh Deh, Messias) 16:00-21:10. Probable extension of Bor Wudn story. There was no food; they were eating little birds. They went swimming and ate fish and later drank beer.
8B Story 3 (Veh Deh, 2 people) 21:10-25:05. Spell. Wash out fat. Poison. Pain. Farinha. Probably for healing sick children. Calls upon abiu and mìn [ingá] Water.
8B Story 4 (Veh Deh, 2 people) 25:10-31:10. Spell named Wu'u [fever] bi'idn. Mentions Cahpi Deh [ayahuasca water] repeatedly.
8B Story 5 (Veh Deh, 2 people) 31:10-32:20. Possibly village spell [Hayam bi'idn]. Mentions little breastmilk. Soul and ancestors. Sweet fruit waters.
8B Story 6 (Veh Deh, 2 people) 32:30-38:00. Spell. Tsaa Biyidn. Possible fever spell. Wash away poison. Sit on stool to meditate. His pimenta. List of animal parts and fruit smells. Those ones they kill. I wash poison. Sit on stool. That's what it needs for you. Probably a healing spell.
9A Story 1 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 00:25-10:30. Baktup [bad spirit] and his wife make beer singing. Hunt game then drink beer and singing. There are jaguar's teeth. The banana leave shows up. They pulled its teeth. Let's go and shoot tinamou birds. They were afraid of jaguar.
9A Story 2 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 10:30-21:15. Kagnteh story. Including his wife and sister. They make beer. Kagnteh kills and then goes downstream.
9A Story 3 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 21:35-31:20. Spirit/ghost blood story. Spirit attacks man and woman. They shoot a lot at the tinamou and other birds. They drink beer and dance.
9A Story 4 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 31:25-41:20. Na! Kui' [dead bite] story. A man dies.
9A Story 5 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 41:22-48:15. Discussion between Tsai and Howard Reid. What happens to human spirit after death? It goes up to Waah Paih [Vulture Hill]. It's the size of a piece of pigshit. Kagnteh gives it flower pollen to sniff. Then it rises and grows upwards.
9B Story 1 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 00:15-03:50. Bad motor noise. No good.
9B Story 2 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 03:50-06:40. Bad motor noise. No good.
9B Story 3 (Tah Deh, Tsai) 06:30-12:30. Spell. Possibly Beer Jaguar spell. [Says it's a spell but it's not like others --HR]
9B Story 4 (Tah Deh, Possibly José) 12:40-17:05. Kagnteh story.
9B Story 5 (Tah Deh, Possibly José) 17:10-19:15. Old giant armadillo story. Motor noise.
GenresMyth
Narrative
Source NoteCassette-H1, Cassette-H2, Cassette-H3, Cassette-H4, Cassette-H5
References
Contributor(s) Individual / RoleReid, Howard (Researcher)
Contributor(s) Corporate / Role

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