The story of Ipeorkun
La Historia de Ipeorkun
Object Details
| Subject Language | Kuna, San Blas |
| Language PID(s) | ailla:119499 |
| Title [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Title | |
| Title | The story of Ipeorkun |
| Language Community | |
| Country(ies) | Panama |
| Place Created | Kuna Yala & Darien |
| Date Created | 1970-12-15 |
| Description [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Description | |
| Description | La historia de Ipeorkuna (Ipeorkuna), a narrative about one of the two most important culture heroes, Ipeorkun, who founded many of the institutions of Kuna society (see Chapin 1989:122-125, Aiban Wagwa 2000:86-97, Lopez in Slavador 1997:xxiv-xxv, Nordenskiold et al 1938). The speaker, Sakla (Chief) Gonzalo Salcedo of the village of Niatupu or Tigantiki, recorded a number of narratives, cosmological descriptions, and elaborate metaphors from the chiefly tradition called Pap Ikar (Father's Way). The initial recording was of an unstaged teaching session in which Chief Salcedo instructed another village leader. In each of the subsequent recordings, made between the early 1970s and the mid-1990s, Chief Salcedo narrated one historical/mythological episode, one set of didactic metaphors, or one aspect of Kuna cosmology. The narratives were spoken into the tape recorder privately at home, without a Kuna audience, but the manner of the narration was almost identical with that used in the initial teaching session and in other teaching sessions that were not recorded. For one of the narratives, the Story of Inananatil (analyzed in Howe and Hirschfeld 1981), Chief Salcedo was also recorded chanting the story in the gathering house of Ukkuppa village in 1975, offering an opportunity to compare the spoken and chanted narratives. |
| Genres | Narrative History Conversation |
| Source Note | reel 2.1 |
| References | |
| Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Salcedo, Gonzalo (Speaker) Howe, James (Researcher) |
| Contributor(s) Corporate / Role |
Media Files
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| CUK003R004I001.mp3 | audio/mp3 | 1 |
| CUK003R004I001.wav | 1 |
