Ein Mann aus Santa Rosa de Sucumbios gewinnt Bast und flicht damit zunächst in leinwandbindiger, randparalleler Flechttechnik in beiden Richtungen in die Breite und dann diagonal in Längsrichtung eine Maniokpresse, wobei er die Enden zu einer Art Schlauch verengt und die beiden übrigbleibenden Flechtstreifen jeweils zu einer Schlaufe zusammenbindet.

A man, inhabitant of Santa Rosa de Sucumbios, is manufacturing a tipiti. He begins with an excursion over to the Ecuadorian side of Rio San Miguel to locate an appropriate tree from whose bast he will make the instrument. He fells the tree, strips the bark in long strips and then separates the inner bark form the outer bark. It is the inner bark that he will use for the tipiti. He ties the bast into several bundles and carries them home, where he begins to plait a tipiti out of it. He starts by crossing two strands, then adds one more each alongside those first laid out, and then continues thus until the tipiti has several strands across upon which he adds then only to its length. The ends from both sides are narrowed down into a soirt of tube and then tied over to form a loop from which the tipiti will be suspended from the rafters; through the lower loop a stick will also be inserted to enable his female relatives to twist the tipiti and thus to squeeze out the poisonous manioc juice. The female shows the beginning the rectangular then oblique 1/1 plaiting of a tipiti with tubular diagonally braided ends.