The year begins in our month of April when the fruiting cycle of the chonta, or peach palm, ends. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)
There follows a long unnamed gap in the Waorani year until the chonta season, which lasts six months, comes again in November. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)
The clump of chonta trees grew a good five miles from the windfall. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Then the troop clumsily made its way over the swaying branches and sought a friendly shelter in the crown of a chonta palm. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
What was far more important was that the peccary herds fed on the chonta nuts and were sure to be in the neighborhood of their favorite feeding-grounds. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Suma knew where the round, red chonta nuts grew and that they ripened during the season of rains; and that even now the ground was covered with the tasty morsels. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The strips of the shell of the chonta are selected, cut to the right length, and smoothed to a thickness of approximately an inch by the removal of the pith, being split to a breadth of an inch and a half. ❋ Unknown (1923)
At times we gathered the fruit from a chonta palm, a yellow mealy fruit, of the texture and (more or less) the taste of a roast chestnut. ❋ Unknown (1923)
The wood used is the same as that employed for making spears, and it is known in Inca as chonta. ❋ Unknown (1923)
The latter would serve to cook any eels, rays, frogs, etc., which she might capture, and to boil chonta, nuts, and other fruits. ❋ Unknown (1923)
With stone-axes and split bamboo knives, sharpened clam-shells (rubbed to a keen edge on sand-stone), and chonta-wood machetes, they went from corpse to corpse, gathering and stringing their gruesome emblems of victory. ❋ Unknown (1923)
The two strips are then placed together and bound here and there with bark; then the outer surface is split off bit by bit till it is round in form; next, by making incisions at various points and stripping off portions of the chonta, the weapon is tapered so as to comply with the dimensions given above. ❋ Unknown (1923)
The roof was stuck full of spears, beautifully made from chonta wood and tufted with feathers from the lumbiqui (toucan -- Quichua). ❋ Unknown (1923)
To the Quicha-speaking tribes of Peru they are known as Chantaquiro, nearly equivalent to "Black Teeth", from their former custom of staining their teeth and gums with a black dye from the chonta or black-wood palm (peperonia tinctorioides). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
His habitation is one of the largest structures on the Napo; the posts are of chonta-palm, the sides and roof of the usual material -- split bamboo and palm leaves. ❋ James Orton (1853)
The Napos are not brave; their chief weapons for hunting are spears of chonta wood, and blowpipes (_bodaqueras_) made of a small palm having a pith, which, when removed, leaves a polished bore, or of two separate lengths of wood, each scooped out with patient labor and considerable skill by means of the incisor teeth of a rodent. ❋ James Orton (1853)
Over these we spread a flooring of split bamboo, and planted four stout chonta sticks to support a palm-thatched roof. ❋ James Orton (1853)
The arrows, five or six feet long, are made from the flower-stalk of the arrow-grass (_Gynerium_), the head pointed with the flinty chonta and tipped with bone, often anointed with poison. ❋ James Orton (1853)
[I am] very [lucky] to have a Chonta as a [sister]! ❋ SexxSeaBlonde (2010)
I wish I could [be with] [Chontae] [id] love to be in her right now. ❋ Have Done Nicholas (2021)
