
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.
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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.

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.
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.