Its length was unusual. The skin, from head to tail was red and black. It had the characteristics of a sucuriju (snake - Olbrzymia anakonda) and an anaconda (snake - Boa constrictor). Tuluperê knocked down the ships that sailed on the waters of such boundary and, when it caught a person, this was squeezed to death and then swalled. One day, a native of the Wayana nation, from the Karib linguistic family, with the help of the Xamã [shaman], religious leader, managed to kill Tuluperê, after hitting it with many arrows. When they did so, they saw the drawing on the skin of the big-snake, memorizing them. After that, they started to reproduce these drawings in all their basketry pieces.
