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Aniita asáana

• Told by Hermenegildo Díaz Cuyasa on 4 July 2002 in San Antonio de Pintuyacu, Loreto, Peru.
  
  
• Recorded by Lynda de Jong (now Boudreault) and Christine Beier as part of the Iquito Language Documentation Project.
  
  
• Click here for the latest version of the transcript and translations.
  — This new version of the transcription plus translations was developed by Christine Beier and Hermenegildo Díaz Cuyasa in 2015-2016.
  — The document itself was first prepared for presentation at UT-Austin on January 4, 2017.
  — The document was revised again in June 2018.
  
  
• Click here to hear the recording in Iquito (Ikíitu; ISO code iqu; 16min 21sec; 19MB MP3).
  
  
• Click here to hear the recording in Spanish (Castellano loretano; 16min 09sec; 19MB MP3).
  
  

• Key lines:
• 1-4: We meet Aniita asáana.
• 48-52: Aniita asáana and his nephew speak for the first time.
• 55-56: "What is it, uncle?"
• 99-101: They cook all the fish.
• 110-111: The nephew stares in disbelief.
• 149-154: Aniita asáana instructs his nephew on eating.
• 159-163: Nephew watches his uncle eating in disbelief.
• 172-175: Nephew discovers the ripe plantains and his uncle shooshes him.
• 200-201: Aniita asáana gulping down mingado.
• 202-203: Aniita asáana gulps down the rest and throws the pot aside.
• 225-226: The taricaya runs off.
• 227-231: The nephew hollers that the taricaya is escaping.
• 233: Aniita asáana pursuing the taricaya.
• 268: Aniita asáana snoring.
• 318-322:Nephew speaks to his mother upon returning home.

• Best sound effects:
• Aniita asáana gulping down mingado.
• Aniita asáana gulps down the rest of the mingado and throws the pot aside.
• The taricaya running off.
• Aniita asáana pursuing the taricaya.
• Aniita asáana snoring.
  
  

Last updated: June 15, 2018

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