Kõtkõra asisi 'Kõtkõra's corn' or 'The origin of maize and other crops among the Sakurabiat people'

This short narrative is a fragment of a mythological tale that describes the origin
of maize and other crops, such as beans and manioc (yucca), among the Sakurabiat people. Sakurabiat is pronounced [sa’kɨrabiat]. In the orthographic convention for the language the grapheme <u> represents the hight central vowel
[ɨ].The Sakurabiat are very reduced in number. In the last survey done in 2016,
there were only 65 people living in the Rio Mekens Indigenous Land.
The Kõtkõra asisi story is told by Mercedes Guaratira Sakyrabiar, one of the
oldest speakers of Sakurabiat at the time of the recording. Sadly, she passed away
in December of 2015. Mercedes’s age was not known for certain, but she was
believed to be more than 75 years old when she told this story in 2006. The story
was recorded in audio as part of a long term project for the documentation and
study of the Sakurabiat (Mekens) language, which had partial support from the
Endangered Language Documentation Program, funded by the School of Oriental
and African Studies (SOAS).

This dataset contains the mediafiles. A glossed version with annotations is found in
On this and other worlds -- Voices from Amazonia
Edited by Kristine Stenzel and Bruna Franchetto