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The closed end needs to be where bamboo comes out - if bottom were the open end, the woman could have birth complications/breath.
Important to cook bottom of bamboo 1st, in hottest part of the fire (coals), largest/thickest part at bottom, closest.
Fishing is common for Wachiperi- cooking not just for now but for the whole week- and the whole community. If a big harvest, they don't hoard for just the family of the fisher.
A couple ways to preserve fish:
A) smoked
B) preserved in bamboo (natural storage process/Tupperwear [[image]])
When served the 1st time, served in bamboo juice which has many nutrients (esp. good for children).
To get fish out of cylinder, usu. they have to machete the cylinder open.
Served w/ yucca + heart of palm salad.
Question of clothing made of bark from Ohai tree; pounded/pulvarized into cloth, no water needed, tree has its own resin for hours.
Traditionally Wachiperi did not wear clothes because it got into the way of hunting when other communities (other Andean + foreign) came into their region they adopted clothes (and in this style). (w/in last 100 years)
Ancestors (women) did wear a leaf whose Spanish name no one even knows.

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