Ein Mann und sein Sohn aus Quebrada Taparral holen Früchte von Borojoa patinoi aus dem Wald. Seine Frau halbiert die Früchte, schabt das Fruchtfleisch aus, füllt es in eine Kalebasse und erhitzt diese, wobei die weiß-rosa Masse schwarz wird. Sie malt damit mit Hilfe von zwei- oder dreizackigen Stäbchen gerade und geschwungene Linien und Punkte auf den Körper ihrer Tochter.

A man and his son bring in the river fruits of Borojoa patinoi from the forest and this fruit will be used for preparing a black-bluish dye. His wife will prepare this dye. She slices the fruit with a machete and extracts the interior mass and fills an old Crescentia cujete gourd with it. She slightly heats this gourd with the fruit over a fire-place and as result of this the content, orginally pinkish-white, turns black. With this dye the women later paints her daughter. To apply the dye to the body she uses special traditional sticks, two- or three-pronged, and with these she sketches out designs, mostly linear and straight, but also a few curving lines on the girl's back, chest, arms, face, and nose. The girl herself also helps in this, painting some of the designs. The paint, which is applied largely for festivities or visits, lasts several days.