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Release Date: 9/15/2026
Format: WAV, MP4, EAF, MD, CSV
Size: 1.92 GB
This collection contains fifteen recordings from January 2019 documenting Amahuaca technical and ritual knowledge and practices. Speakers provide step-by-step explanations of how to make a canoe, clear and work a chacra, harvest maize, build a house, hunt, and fish. Other recordings address funerary practices, including burials at Jinachina with commentary in Spanish; traditional remedies, including references to Yaminawa practices; the treatment of stings and bites; punishment; and relationships with the church and religion. The collection is particularly valuable for the study of specialized vocabulary and ethnobiological terminology. The recordings were made in Atalaya and the Native Communities of San Juan and San Martín, Ucayali, Peru. Documentation was carried out by Pilar Valenzuela, Candy Angulo, and Roberto Zariquiey Biondi.
Licensing
Licencia Chana 2.0 — Licence for Peruvian Indigenous Language Documentation Collections
https://github.com/rzariquiey/licencia-chanaRestrictions/Special Constraints
ACCESS IS GRANTED CASE BY CASE, WITH INDIVIDUAL REVIEW. Requesters must identify themselves, state their institutional affiliation, and describe the intended use in specific terms. The donor reviews each request individually and may decline without stating a reason.
This collection has been placed at the most restrictive level because of the nature of its content, not because consent is lacking. All speakers gave their authorisation. The restriction exists because this is material that should circulate with context and accompaniment rather than by open download.
Recommended Traditional Knowledge labels (Local Contexts): TK Community Use Only, TK Non-Commercial, TK Attribution.
This dataset is released under the Licencia Chana 2.0, not under a Creative Commons licence. Download is direct and unrestricted, but use is subject to the following terms.
PERMITTED WITHOUT FURTHER AUTHORISATION
REQUIRES PRIOR WRITTEN AUTHORISATION FROM THE DONOR
ATTRIBUTION Cite as: Zariquiey, Roberto (donor). Amahuaca: Knowledge and Practices. Mozilla Data Collective.
RIGHT OF WITHDRAWAL Speakers retain the right to withdraw their recordings from this collection at any time. This is the principal reason a Creative Commons licence was not used: CC licences are irrevocable and cannot accommodate this commitment.
This collection includes funerary practice, burial accounts, and knowledge of traditional remedies and medicinal plants.
Contact for authorisations: [email protected]
Forbidden Usage
Note on machine learning: this is not a blanket prohibition on ML research. Evaluating and benchmarking existing models on this data is permitted, and so is non-production academic experimentation, provided the model is not deployed, the weights are not released, and the results cite the collection. What requires authorisation is production training and weight release. The reason is that the consent forms signed before approximately 2020 do not mention AI training and cannot reasonably be read as covering it; the communities have not yet been consulted on this point.
Contact for authorisations: [email protected]
Ethical Review
All recordings in this collection were made with the informed consent of the speakers, obtained in the field at the time of recording. Signed consent forms are held by the donor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and are available to the MDC team on request. Speakers are identified by code (S01, S02...) rather than by name, in file names, in the annotation tiers of the ELAN files, and in all accompanying documentation. Contributors are acknowledged collectively in each collection's documentation, without linking any name to any specific recording or code. A small number of individuals appear under their own names because they asked to be credited as authors of the material; this is stated explicitly in the documentation of the collections concerned. Material judged sensitive was withheld from deposit entirely rather than published under restriction. Collections involving funerary practice, medicinal knowledge, ritual knowledge, or extended life histories of identifiable individuals are published under restricted access with individual review of each request. One point remains open and is declared here rather than glossed over: the consent forms signed before approximately 2020 do not mention the use of recordings for training artificial intelligence models. They cannot reasonably be read as covering it. The communities have not yet been consulted on this specific question. Until that consultation takes place, production model training is not authorised, and the licence reflects this.
Intended Use
Documentation of Amahuaca subsistence, ethnobiological and medicinal knowledge. Intended for research on specialised lexicon and ethnobiological terminology, and as a bridge to ethnobotanical and ethnomedical research communities.
1. Donante — Roberto Zariquiey Biondi, PUCP, [email protected]
2. Lengua — Amahuaca · ISO 639-3 amc · familia pano
3. Otras denominaciones — Amawaka, Amaguaco, Ameuhaque
4. Descripción general
Quince grabaciones de enero de 2019 dedicadas al conocimiento técnico y ritual amahuaca. Los hablantes explican, paso a paso, cómo se hace una canoa, cómo se abre y se trabaja la chacra, cómo se cosecha el maíz, cómo se construye una casa, cómo se caza y se pesca. Otro grupo de grabaciones trata las prácticas funerarias (entierros, incluidos los de Jinachina, con comentarios en castellano), los remedios tradicionales —con referencias al uso yaminawa—, el tratamiento de picaduras y mordeduras, el castigo y la relación con la iglesia y la religión.
Es el material más útil de la colección amahuaca para léxico especializado y terminología etnobiológica.
5. Participantes — hablantes identificados con código (S01, S02…); ver la sección
«Participantes y seudonimización» más abajo. Equipo de investigación: Pilar Valenzuela,
Candy Angulo, Roberto Zariquiey.
6. Lugar y fecha — Atalaya y comunidades nativas de San Juan y San Martín (Ucayali, Perú), enero de 2019
7. Documentación — Pilar Valenzuela, Candy Angulo y Roberto Zariquiey Biondi
9. Citación
Zariquiey, Roberto (donante). Conocimiento tradicional y prácticas amahuaca. Archivo Digital de Lenguas Peruanas. Lima, PUCP.
10. Ortografía
Inventario fonológico del amahuaca y su correspondencia ortográfica.
Consonantes
| Fonema | Grafema | Fonema | Grafema | Fonema | Grafema |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /p/ | ‹p› | /ɾ/ | ‹r› | /ʃ/ | ‹sh› |
| /t/ | ‹t› | /t͡s/ | ‹ts› | /h/ | ‹j› |
| /k/ | ‹k› | /t͡ʃ/ | ‹ch› | /j/ | ‹y› |
| /ʔ/ | ‹h› | /s/ ~ /s̪/ | ‹z› | /w/ | ‹v› |
| /m/ | ‹m› | ||||
| /n/ | ‹n› |
Vocales
| Fonema | Grafema |
|---|---|
| /i/ | ‹i› |
| /ɨ/ | ‹u› |
| /a/ | ‹a› |
| /u̜/ | ‹o› |
⚠️ La ortografía amahuaca se aparta bastante de las convenciones castellanas. Conviene tenerlo presente al leer o buscar sobre las transcripciones:
15 grabaciones · 1.43 h de audio · video MP4 · 16 archivos ELAN · 2.26 GB
amc_conoc_doc_cosechamaiz2.eaf). Revisar si el audio
existe en otra carpeta.Los hablantes aparecen con código, no con nombre, tanto en los nombres de archivo como en los tiers de los ELAN. Códigos usados en esta colección:
S01, S02, S06, S07, S10, S13, S15, S22, S24, S26
Créditos. Esta colección fue posible gracias a la participación de Luis Ríos Cárdenas, Marina, María, Maximo, Rosa.
Los nombres se listan como reconocimiento colectivo y no se vinculan a grabaciones ni a códigos concretos.
Nivel 3 — Acceso restringido, autorización caso por caso
| Licencia | Licencia Chana — ver LICENCIA_CHANA.md |
| Acceso en MDC | Gateado, con revisión individual de cada solicitud y justificación del uso previsto |
| Uso académico, docente y de revitalización | Permitido con atribución |
| Uso comercial y entrenamiento de IA | Requieren autorización previa y por escrito |
| Condición adicional | Reconocimiento explícito de la comunidad de origen |
Motivo del nivel 3: incluye prácticas funerarias (entierros, entierros de Jinachina), conocimiento sobre remedios tradicionales y una grabación sobre el castigo.
Etiquetas recomendadas (Local Contexts): TK Community Use Only, TK Non-Commercial,
TK Attribution.
Consentimiento: ✅ existe autorización de los hablantes (declarado por el donante, agosto de 2026). El nivel 3 aquí no responde a falta de consentimiento, sino a la naturaleza del contenido: es material que conviene que circule con acompañamiento, no en descarga abierta.
Ver LICENCIA_CHANA.md para los términos y 00_LICENCIAS_Y_ACCESO.md para el esquema de acceso.