Tãrãwã Weruya/Palo que tiene ojo/The Log with an Eye

• Item identifier: 2018-33.025
• Date: 06 Jan 2014
• Contributors: María Miranda Llergo (consultant); Kelsey Neely (researcher, donor)
• Language: Yora (mts)
• Place: Sepahua, Sepahua, Atalaya, Ucayali, Peru
• Description: One .wav file, with accompanying .eaf annotation file. María Miranda Llergo narrates the story of Tãrãwã Weruya, about a log that has eyes. While gathering frogs, a man goes too close to a giant fallen log. When he climbs on top of it to get more frogs, the log opens its eye and says "tãrãwã weruya" (log with an eye) to him, then slides into the water and across the river to the opposite bank, with the man still on top. The man swims back to the bank where his village is and never goes near the log again. This traditional narrative was volunteered by the speaker and performed extemporaneously.
• Availability: Online access
• Collection: Materials of the Yaminawa Language Documentation Project
• Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
• Suggested citation: Tãrãwã Weruya/Palo que tiene ojo/The Log with an Eye, 2018-33.025, in "Materials of the Yaminawa Language Documentation Project", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26511.

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