Equipment

626 sourced equipment pages: vessels, tools, appliances and built structures.

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Watercolor illustration of a long woven plant-fibre WaiWai tipiti with looped ends, shown empty and at rest.
Equipment

Tipití

Tipití is a long, flexible woven basket press used to squeeze grated cassava mash. Its looped ends let a maker suspend and stretch the tube; it is a processing tool, not a fermenting vessel.

Presses and weights
Guyana
Watercolor illustration of a low parakari fermentation bed: broad leaves lie under layered cassava bread, with leaves partly covering the bed.
Equipment

Parakari fermentation bed

A floor-laid leaf bed holds layered moist cassava bread for parakari’s solid-state first stage. Wapishana and Makushi ethnographies document distinct leaf materials; the bed is opened before its contents move to a separate vessel.

Baskets, trays and beds
Rupununi region
Equipment

Balata gobi

A balata gobi is a natural-rubber mother vessel documented in Wapishana parakari production in Guyana. It holds cassava mash for the second fermentation after the leaf-covered Rhizopus stage.

Tanks and vats
Guyana