Guié Chijñecare
Guie’s Song
Jonoiné was of the Posorajãi Clan. I feel sorry for myself that Jonoiné left me. I don’t like younger men for they have no experience. They paint themselves up with carbon from the fire but for nothing, for they don’t ever kill non-Ayoréos nor their fellow Ayoreos.
She remembers Jonoiné for Jonoiné really killed jaguars, non-Ayoreos, and Ayoreos, and he told the truth. He was like the “south winds!” He had many, many victims.
She remembered his brother who was an Ayoré. They ate a lot of wild pig meat and he was generous in giving to his brother because they didn’t have many relatives and were given only a little meat from the wild pigs. He always took care of his brother. He used to say: “I looked at some white cloth, but when my brother didn’t get any of it, I felt sorry for him.”
Guiei thought about Jonoiné her former husband who had broken up with her.
(The young girl is sorry because the other women took her husband and she is not interested in the younger men who are available. She remembers what a good hunter her former husband was.)
Guié – Tobité, Bolivia – 1965.
Transcribed by: Joyce Davis Buchegger.
Translated to English by: Maxine Morarie.
