huito

* Painting warrior images on cloth with Berta in the Yine village of Diamante, and then having her paint warriors on my arm with huito, a rainforest fruit.

memories of Peru WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2006

* Painting warrior images on cloth with Berta in the Yine village of Diamante, and then having her paint warriors on my arm with huito, a rainforest fruit.

Archive 2006-04-01 WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2006

A short interrogation sufficed to satisfy myself that this was huito, a kind of giant walnut, of which the outer shell contains a stain or dye, in just the same way as a butternut or a black walnut.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

The rising sun, however, revealed to us the full possibilities of huito.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

The same huito is used extensively in the small towns, villages, and posts of Ecuador and Peru bordering on the Jívaro territory, by half-castes who are not as dark as the Indians, nor yet as light as the Spanish.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

Here and there they strolled round the dying embers, busy with rouge-pots, feathers and loin-cloths, black from head to foot with the huito which had taken effect during the night hours, their black pointed teeth bared in a grin of anticipation -- a band of veritable demons straight from Hell.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

Their legs were bare, but painted with the juice of the huito, which made it appear that they had on half-boots.

Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847