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On the second to last day of the Wyra’whaw ritual, mothers painted their children’s bodies with the juice of the genipap fruit.

Many of them were unclothed, and some had adorned their bodies with exquisite ornamentations: monkey-tooth necklaces; swirls of black pigment from the genipap fruit; swaths of red pigment from the uruku berry.

Genipa americana.—This belongs to the cinchona family, and produces the fruit called genipap or marmalade box.