Motif
ever-simmering household food pot
ever_simmering_household_food_pot
A motif of the Sacred Vessel and Container family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
amazonian
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The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes CHAPTER VI / CHAPTER VII / CHAPTER VIII / CHAPTER IX; lines 4543-4644 confidence: low
Cassava is described as the Indian's 'staff of life,' complemented by a meat-rich pepper-pot that each family keeps simmering and replenishes daily, with peppers as a chief stimulant.
Each family is said to have a large pepper-pot that simmers constantly over special fires and is replenished daily from kills.
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