Description
Wholesale pack of 6, Wholesale per unit price €23.65, Wholesale pack of 6 price €141.9
Retail per unit price €28
Natural extract of Genipapo
Genipapo is an Amazonian fruit whose pulp contains a black pigment, traditionally used by the Satéré Mawé Indians to make temporary tattoos.
Genipapo also has cleansing and purifying properties for the skin. It can also be used as a natural hair dye.
With the purchase of your tattoo an inspiration book and a drawing stick are offered.
In the beginning, there were two Elders, sages, “Nag”, named Waham Kuri and Nui 'Wa'i Na. There was then no night, so we could not sleep. Waham Kuri went to buy the night, with the shade of Genipapo and the Chocalho "Ja'ambe" (traditional percussion used in the Tucandeira), from old snakes. However, since the snakes had neither hands nor legs, they could not hold the shade of Genipapo nor the Chocalho “Ja'ambe”. So they asked Waham Kuri to paint their bodies. He did so; this is why each snake has a body painting, which identifies it according to its species. Waham Kuri also tried to put the Chocalho on them; but as they did not have the means to hold it either, so they kept from the Chocalho only the sound: tsss, tsss, tsss. The old serpent said to Wahamkuri: "I will only keep the sound of the Chocalho Ja'ambe so that our descendants can identify when they meet. Thus, until today, when a snake meets a man, it plays the Chocalho “cobra tail” by doing tsss, tsss, tsss…
As the serpent did not retain the shade of Genipapo, nor the Chocalho instrument, Waham kuri reported them. The fact of having kept the color of the Genipapo and the Chocalho makes it possible to remember this agreement made with the snake in exchange for the night. The noise emitted by the snake allows it to signal its presence, to avoid being harmed or harming us in return.
Even today, the Sateré Mawé use the Genipapo shade exclusively for the “Ritual of the Tucandeira”.