Context (Field collection)
The maker is a young man called Sarakë, of mixed Trio and Wayana parentage who married a Trio man’s daughter.
Sarakë made this maluwana on request. It represents mulokot and 3 types of caterpillar (ëlukë), including kuluwayak, the giant caterpillar spirit, considered particularly powerful. See notes on 2005.622. Although the materials used are less traditional that those of the maluwana from Antecume Pata (synthetic paint, and probably another wood was used instead of silk -cotton tree (ceiba pentandra), the motifs are more traditional.
Tëpoe is considered a Trio village, but is increasingly mixed, and a maluwana, a typically Wayan object, now adorns the roof of the Tukusipan communal house - itself a structure adopted either from the Wayana or the Wai-Wai (although in this case the structure is not a perfect dome, and the maluwana is placed between the two principal vertical poles.
Given to the collectors in exchange for a 70kg share of the collectors' charter to the village worth SRD350 - about £70
Event Date 2005
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
A maluwana made of wood and synthetic paint.
Event Date 03/2005
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Fanny Veys: 'Colours used are dark green, yellow, red, white, dark blue on a black background. Four beings are arranged around the central circular motif. The edge has triangular motifs surrounded by white dots. The sides of the disk are painted in dark green. The back of the disk is completely black, with the following inscription '12-01-2005 Saraké ANKARAPI'.
Event Date 13/6/2006
Author: Lucie Carreau (admin)

Context (Display)
Exhibited: On display in Amazonia case, (Case 17-18), Maudslay Hall from March 2007.
Event Date 3/2007
Author: Lucie Carreau (admin)