--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, françoise <anesthesi@...> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> -I'm a newcomer and I've already enjoyed reading some of your
> messages.
> -I'm an artist, and interested in anthropology, in everything
> involved with shamanism, and the main origins of Bouddhism. I'm
> actually doing a search on the word "Kapayo". <Kap' kapayo> ...
> -Your answers should be welcomed.
> :-) and sorry for my poor English.
>
> All the best to everyone,
>
> Françoise

Hi, Françoise.

Kapayo is the pl. of kapi - monkey.
Here is what the Pali-English Dictionary
(http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/index.html) has on it:
***
Kapi [Sk. kapi, original designation of a brownish colour, cp.
kapila & kapota] a monkey (freq. in similes) Sn 791; Th 1, 1080; J
I.170; III.148, cp. kavi.
--kacchu the plant Mucuna pruritus Pv II.310; °phala its fruit PvA
86; --citta "having a monkey's mind," capricious, fickle J
III.148=525; --naccanaa Npl., Pv IV.137; --niddaa "monkey--sleep,"
dozing Miln 300.
***

Lars