Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
Ayoi con ristra
English translation:
ayoi [animal skin headdress] with string
Added to glossary by
Jenette Holyoak
Aug 27, 2015 12:12
8 yrs ago
Spanish term
Ayoi con ristra
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Another one from this list of religious artefacts/paintings....
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| 4 +3 | ayoi [animal skin headdress] with string |
Charles Davis
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ayoi [animal skin headdress] with string
Keep "ayoi" and put it in italics. The "ristra" is probably a string of feathers, but I wouldn't want to say that without further information or a picture.
The "ayoi" is a head covering made of animal skin, usually jaguar skin, though not always jaguar, worn by the Ayoreo people of Paraguay:
"1. El ayoi. El gorro de pieles animales premia el poder del guerrero, la habilidad del cazador y la fuerza y el coraje de ambos. Los jefes, llamados asuté, tienen derecho a usar la piel de jaguar; los varones de inferior jerarquía deben contentarse con pieles menos espléndidas y no tan hermosas [...]"
See rest of description, on p. 53, and also the picture of two Ayoreo men wearing the ayoi, as well as feathers.
http://bvp-org-py.lecom.com.py/biblio_htm/escobar_belleza_ot...
"I'm going to put on my ayoi [jaguar headdress], and my cobia [vulture feather collar] will go with me to the grave"
Lucas Bessire, Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life, 74
https://books.google.es/books?id=5i-OBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA74&lpg=PA...
The "ayoi" is a head covering made of animal skin, usually jaguar skin, though not always jaguar, worn by the Ayoreo people of Paraguay:
"1. El ayoi. El gorro de pieles animales premia el poder del guerrero, la habilidad del cazador y la fuerza y el coraje de ambos. Los jefes, llamados asuté, tienen derecho a usar la piel de jaguar; los varones de inferior jerarquía deben contentarse con pieles menos espléndidas y no tan hermosas [...]"
See rest of description, on p. 53, and also the picture of two Ayoreo men wearing the ayoi, as well as feathers.
http://bvp-org-py.lecom.com.py/biblio_htm/escobar_belleza_ot...
"I'm going to put on my ayoi [jaguar headdress], and my cobia [vulture feather collar] will go with me to the grave"
Lucas Bessire, Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life, 74
https://books.google.es/books?id=5i-OBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA74&lpg=PA...
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Taña Dalglish
: Good find. Wonder why although isolating "ayoi" I found nothing? Hmm! As always, you come up trumps! // http://cmbs.mennonitebrethren.ca/archive-of-news-from-cmbs/ Un abrazo.
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Mysteries of Google, I suppose. Many thanks, Taña :) Great reference! I bet the ristra is one of those feathered necklaces. Un abrazo.
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philgoddard
: The best part of your answer is discovering from your second reference that there's a tribe called the Direquednejnaigosode.
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A name to conjure with! There seem to be a number of these -gosode names. Thanks, Phil :)
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Adolfo Fulco
: Excellent find! KudoZ to you, Charles!
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Thanks very much, Adolfo! Saludos cordiales :)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you! "
Reference comments
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Reference:
may be a clue
In Cuba, the Lucumís—and in some cases, the Congos and Carabalís as well—
took carvings or images of Catholic saints and transformed them by imbuing them with
the energy of the African orishas, consecrating them through ceremonial processes that
were fairly similar to the ordination rites. These included blood sacrifice. Through these
rites, the orisha’s energy was deposited in the image, and the saint’s iconography was
appropriated as public imagery, allowing the orisha to gain wider acceptance by
“dressing” him or her in the garbs of the Catholic “deities.” To some extent, these images
went through a minor ordination and were “crowned” as if they were living Lucumí
priests and priestesses.40
P.14 of Taña's ref., but the previous 2 pages are also worth reading.
took carvings or images of Catholic saints and transformed them by imbuing them with
the energy of the African orishas, consecrating them through ceremonial processes that
were fairly similar to the ordination rites. These included blood sacrifice. Through these
rites, the orisha’s energy was deposited in the image, and the saint’s iconography was
appropriated as public imagery, allowing the orisha to gain wider acceptance by
“dressing” him or her in the garbs of the Catholic “deities.” To some extent, these images
went through a minor ordination and were “crowned” as if they were living Lucumí
priests and priestesses.40
P.14 of Taña's ref., but the previous 2 pages are also worth reading.
Discussion
http://www.portalguarani.com/106_ticio_escobar/8453_cuestion...
In said site:
"Como signo de la victoria del cacique valiente sobre su peligroso enemigo, los jefes guerreros ayoreo utilizan un gorro cónico de piel de jaguar llamado ayoi."
Ristra means "conjunto de elementos de un mismo origen, unos a continuación de los otros, unidos frecuentemente con una guita o cordel."
Off the top of my head, I'd say it could be one of these "Ayoi" people with some sort of necklace...