to be confined to the use of yagé in the Putumayo low- 
lands, thus excluding the Sibundoy (ef. 33). Yepes (44) 
discussed the use of yagé by the neighboring, Inga- 
speaking Santiagueno in his published interview with a 
travelling medicine-man in Popayan. 
Vil 
The Sibundoy eall the drug biavt * in their native lan- 
guage Kamsa, but frequently use the widespread yagé 
as well. Table I lists and explains all those words used 
by the Sibundoy to designate the drug or its compo- 
TaBsL_e I 
Terms employed by the Sibundoy for the drug and its source plants. 
Term Etymology Ref. Application 
, , a! . , ‘ ‘ . 
Amaron waska Spanish amarron boa constrictor’ B.Caapi 
’ Pp 
7 ‘ ‘ 2 
from amarrar ‘to tie’; and Que- (6) 
, ‘6 4). 
chua wiskha ‘cord’ [hence ‘liana’ }. (20) 
Ambiwaska Quechua hdnpi ‘medicine’ and (20) B.Caapi, 
wdskha ‘liana’. drug 
Ayawaska Quechua dya ‘cadaver’ and (20) B.Caapi, 
wiskha ‘liana’. drug 
Bidxva Kams4: sometimes ‘climbing (6) B.Caapi 
plant’, but usually restricted to 
this use. (Related to yavé?). 
Biaxii Kamsa: from bidza. (19) drug 
Bicémia Kamsa: ‘climbing plant’. B.Caapi 
Cagrupanga Quechua chdhra “planted area, (20) B. Rusbyana 
garden’; and p/dnkka ‘corn (28) 
shuck’, hence ‘leaf’. 
Remedio, Spanish: ‘remedy’. drug 
El remedio 
Sacawdska Quechua sdch’a ‘shrub, tree’ (20) B.Caapi, 
[hence ‘woodland’]; and waskha (28) drug 
‘liana’. 
Yaxé Tukano yahi “sorcerer, sorcerer’s (33) B.Caapi, 
plant’. drug 
* The notation of Kamsa conforms with Juajibioy (79) who follows 
the Institut d’Ethnologie and the Societé de Linguistique of Paris. 
An English approximation of biaxii is byah-hee-ee. 
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