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V - Articles noted by Wallace as in use among the Uaupes Indians that are found with the Issa-Japura Tribes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2011

Thomas Whiffen
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Household Furniture and Utensils

  1. Hammocks.

  2. Baskets, flat and deep.

  3. Calabashes and gourds.

  4. Earthenware water-pots.

  5. Earthenware cooking-pots.

  6. Manioc graters.

  7. Manioc squeezers.

  8. Wicker sieves.

Weapons

  1. Bows and arrows.

  2. Quivers.

  3. Blow-pipes.

  4. Small pots and calabashes for poison.

  5. Spears.

  6. Nets.

  7. Rods, lines, and palm-spine hooks.

  8. Wicker fish-traps.

Musical Instruments

  1. Fifes and flutes of reeds . . Menimehe and Napo tribes.

Dress and Ornaments

  1. Feather head-dress.

  2. Palm-wood combs.

  3. Necklaces of seeds, beads, and teeth.

  4. Wooden ear-plugs.

  5. Armlets.

  6. Painted aprons.

  7. Rattles and ornaments for legs.

  8. Knitted garters.

  9. Calabashes of red pigment.

  10. Painted earthen pot for capi.

  11. Small pot of dried peppers.

  12. Dancing rattles.

  13. Balls of string.

  14. Baskets for edible ants.

  15. Small dug-out canoe.

  16. Paddles.

  17. Pestles and mortars.

  18. Bombax silk-cotton for arrows.

  19. Stone axes.

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The North-West Amazons
Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes
 , pp. 291 - 292
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009
First published in: 1915

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