May-2015
Boy hunters (Part II)
On the way there, everyone walks quickly through the bush, eagerly anxious to see if there is something in the trap they set up days ago. Anxiety also to see if the trap is still there or if it has been stolen by someone, along with the bird. Basically, the anxiety of waiting, of surprise.
With the success of the hunt confirmed, the boys confess that many birds are taken home, raised in cages or eaten, depending on the type of bird.
This time the bird is returned to its habitat, freed joyfully by the boys, who left another trap set up for another day.
Are these boys the hunters or the prey themselves, hunted by the imagery of flight or, as our friend Ghandy Piorsky says, by the “prodigious suggestions of elevation?” Who hunts who here?
The walk back had a different energy, the boys were so light they jumped and spun along the hills, like free birds, jumping in the water, eating green nicuri nuts and putting on an impressive whistling show, imitating the calls of every kind of bird.
Everything happened just as it should.
Text and photos: Renata Meirelles
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