About the kiplu birds
Sobre los pájaros kiplu
Object Details
| Subject Language | Kuna, San Blas |
| Language PID(s) | ailla:119499 |
| Title [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Title | |
| Title | About the kiplu birds |
| Language Community | |
| Country(ies) | Panama |
| Place Created | Kuna Yala |
| Date Created | 1971-12-01 |
| Description [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Description | |
| Description | On the kiplu birds. Kiplu are hawks (probably red-tailed and Swainson's hawks) that migrate through Panama in the fall, forming huge funnels in the sky with other raptors as they circle, gaining altitude in updrafts. The Kuna believe that they are protective spirits doing battle in the skies with evil spirits. The speaker, Sakla (Chief) Gonzalo Salcedo of the village of Niatupu or Tigantiki, recorded a number of narratives, cosmological descriptions, and elaborate metaphors from the chiefly tradition called Pap Ikar (Father's Way). The initial recording was of an unstaged teaching session in which Chief Salcedo instructed another village leader. In each of the subsequent recordings, made between the early 1970s and the mid-1990s, Chief Salcedo narrated one historical/mythological episode, one set of didactic metaphors, or one aspect of Kuna cosmology. The narratives were spoken into the tape recorder privately at home, without a Kuna audience, but the manner of the narration was almost identical with that used in the initial teaching session and in other teaching sessions that were not recorded. For one of the narratives, the Story of Inananatil (analyzed in Howe & Hirchfeld, 1981), Chief Salcedo was also recorded chanting the story in the gathering house of Ukkuppa village in 1975, offering an opportunity to compare the spoken and chanted narratives. |
| Genres | Narrative Description |
| Source Note | cassette 8 |
| References | |
| Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Salcedo, Gonzalo (Speaker) Howe, James (Researcher) |
| Contributor(s) Corporate / Role |
Media Files
There are 4 objects in this resource| Object | File Types | Access Level |
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| CUK003R023I001.mp3 | audio/mp3 | 1 |
| CUK003R023I002.mp3 | audio/mp3 | 1 |
| CUK003R023I001.wav | 1 | |
| CUK003R023I002.wav | 1 |
