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Yãkwa the banquet of the spirits

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  • "Benquet of the spirits"
  • "Banquet of the spirits"

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  • "Documentary on the Yãkwa ritual of the Enawene-Nawe [Saluma] Indians who live along the Amazon in Mato Grosso state, Brazil. The ritual, believed to maintain the harmony of the world, lasts for seven months, and involves the procurement and preparation of food, which is offered to the spirits along with dance, instrumental music, and singing."
  • ""A four-part documentary. Yãkwe shows the most important ritual of the Enauênê-Nauê Indians (Brazil). For seven months every year, the spirits are venerated with offerings of food, song, and dance so that they will protect the community. The World Outside the Rock: the Yaõkwá festivities open with the Enauênê-Nauê preparing for the big fish-catch by making salt, canoes, and fish traps. Dataware's Revenge: Groups of men leave the village for two months and build dams on forest waterways to catch fish as they return from spawning. Harikara, The Spirit's Host: Everyone returns after the fish-catch with smoked fish that will be offered to the spirits and eaten by the villagers until the end of the ritual. In the most spectacular phase of the ceremony, the spirits make their stormy entrance in the village. The LIttle Cassava Girl: The Indians cut down and plant cassava root on the collective fields, the field of the Yãkwá spirit. The Indians relive the myth of the girl who was buried by her mother and who transformed herself into the first cassava root."--Video Data Bank website."
  • "Documentary on the Yãkwa ritual of the Enawene-Nawe (spelled Enauwene-Nawe on wrapper) [Saluma] Indians who live along the Amazon in Mato Grosso state, Brazil. The ritual, believed to maintain the harmony of the world, lasts for seven months, and involves the procurement and preparation of food, which is offered to the spirits along with dance, instrumental music, and singing. Interspersed throughout the program are myths relating to the ritual, told by Enawene-Nawe men. Other activities depicted are body- and face-painting, mask-making, and the subsequent dismantling and destruction of the masks."

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  • "Yãkwa, the banquet of the spirits"
  • "Yãkwá the banquet of the spirits"

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