Awara Nane Putane

Help me! I need to get out of the water. Help me! Take me to my family, I need to go to my people. Take me to my family.

I thought about you. I thought you had died. I shaved my head thinking you had died.

He stinks! He smells like a snake!

I'm coming from another world, hide me and listen to what I have to say, There I drank a sacred beverage and learned many things. This is how my story happened.

I'm going to shoot some curimatã fish. My darling, our lover is calling, Yesterday I was with him, today it's your turn.

Did something happen?! You went out to fish for curimatã and didn’t bring any curimatã back. You’re sitting there, saying nothing.

Mumu, tomorrow early, paint me with genipap, draw kenês on my body, my thoughts are confused. I have a bad feeling. I feel panema, I feel bad, Paint me with annatto and put on all my ornaments, so that I can feel good, so that I can clear my thoughts.

What's happening? You're different. You're acting very strange, asking me to paint you with genipap, asking me to adorn you. I'm going to shoot some curimatã fish.

  • Txum, your boyfriend has arrived, go see him; I’ll wait for you here.

Why don’t you want me? Why don’t you want me, if yesterday you were with an ugly, big-bottomed tapir?

The one who came here yesterday wasn’t me, it was my sister. Don’t talk to me and don’t look at me. For you to be with me, I will give you a plant and awaken you to the other world... But first, I need to know, do you have a family?

No, I don't have a wife, I'm alone in the world.

Father, There is someone who came with me and I liked him.

That's good! Someone like that I was looking for you but wait, let me "take" my snuff If you want to live here with us, I’ll give you my two daughters.

I didn’t even realize I was enchanted. Everything there was different.

Title

Awara Nane Putane

Themes

interdiction | interspecies cooperation | underworld

Emotions

longing

Lesson

The power of friendship guides through adversity.

Animals

Snake

Characters

Avvara: protagonist; Schin: unexpected friend

Special Objects

jenipapo paint

Back-grounds

water, horizon, other world

Source

This is the transcript of the script of a short animated film produced by Saci Filmes and directed by Sergio Carvalho in cooperation with the Coop Agroextrativista Yawanawa - Coopyawa. The story is inspired on the myth Awara Nane Putane from the Amazonian based Yawanawa people from the Indigenous Territory Rio Gregorio in Acre. It was dedicated to the elders: Sr.Yawarani Yawanawa, Sr. Tatá Yawanawa and Sr. Raimundo Yawanawa (in memorian) and to allYawanawas. The People of the Peccary.