mado jedü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	mado jedü
Brazilian standard	mado fedö
New Tribes	mado jedö
historical ad hoc	mado fedi

A waja decorated with nine repetitions of the mado jedü pattern.

Etymology

From mado (“jaguar”) +‎ jedü (“face”), literally ‘jaguar’s face’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [maɾ̠o hʷeɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

mado jedü

1. a basket design pattern resembling two square brackets linked by a center line (see image)

References

• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 110–111, 115, 186–188, 206: “mado fedi”