pupunha

They finally were back among the Tanimuka on the eve of the Kai-ya-ree, the annual festival celebrating the maturation of the pupunha palm.

One River Wade Davis 1996

They finally were back among the Tanimuka on the eve of the Kai-ya-ree, the annual festival celebrating the maturation of the pupunha palm.

One River Wade Davis 1996

I looked up as Ernesto positioned a heavy wooden mortar, about nine inches in diameter and three feet tall, carved from the trunk of a pupunha palm.

One River Wade Davis 1996

I looked up as Ernesto positioned a heavy wooden mortar, about nine inches in diameter and three feet tall, carved from the trunk of a pupunha palm.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Cacao, assaï, and pupunha palms rise above the town, adding greatly to its beauty; while back of all, on the summit of the green slope, begins the picturesque forest, pathless, save here and there a faint hunter's track leading to the untrodden interior.

The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853

For this a hard wood that will resist fire a long time is necessary, and the pupunha was just the thing.

Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

The fore-arms of the fourth rested upon the fruit-cluster of the pupunha!

Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

Without changing their position, they, by means of their arms and legs, threw themselves into a vibrating motion, and by this means the last on the string soon seized upon another pupunha, and also detached its fruit.

Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

He first built a little stage out of split laths of the pupunha palm.

Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

Many of the pupunha palms grew under the shadow of this zamang, but not the tallest ones.

Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850