Kõtkõra asisi 'Kõtkõra's corn' or 'The origin of maize and other crops among the Sakurabiat people'

<p>This short narrative is a fragment of a mythological tale that describes the origin<br> of maize and other crops, such as beans and manioc (yucca), among the Sakurabiat people. Sakurabiat is pronounced [sa’kɨrabiat]. In the orthographic convention for the language the grapheme &lt;u&gt; represents the hight central vowel<br> [ɨ].The Sakurabiat are very reduced in number. In the last survey done in 2016,<br> there were only 65 people living in the Rio Mekens Indigenous Land.<br> The Kõtkõra asisi story is told by Mercedes Guaratira Sakyrabiar, one of the<br> oldest speakers of Sakurabiat at the time of the recording. Sadly, she passed away<br> in December of 2015. Mercedes’s age was not known for certain, but she was<br> believed to be more than 75 years old when she told this story in 2006. The story<br> was recorded in audio as part of a long term project for the documentation and<br> study of the Sakurabiat (Mekens) language, which had partial support from the<br> Endangered Language Documentation Program, funded by the School of Oriental<br> and African Studies (SOAS).</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>This dataset contains the mediafiles. A glossed version with annotations is found in<br> On this and other worlds -- Voices from Amazonia<br> Edited by Kristine Stenzel and Bruna Franchetto</p>