Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX
- APPENDICES
- I Physical Characteristics
- II Mongoloid Origin
- III Depilation
- IV Colour Analysis and Measurements
- V Articles noted by Wallace as in use among the Uaupes Indians that are found with the Issa-Japura Tribes
- VI Names of Deities
- VII Vocabularies and Lists of Names
- VIII Poetry
- LIST OF BOOKS REFERRED TO
- INDEX
- Plate section
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
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX
- APPENDICES
- I Physical Characteristics
- II Mongoloid Origin
- III Depilation
- IV Colour Analysis and Measurements
- V Articles noted by Wallace as in use among the Uaupes Indians that are found with the Issa-Japura Tribes
- VI Names of Deities
- VII Vocabularies and Lists of Names
- VIII Poetry
- LIST OF BOOKS REFERRED TO
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
Household Furniture and Utensils
Hammocks.
Baskets, flat and deep.
Calabashes and gourds.
Earthenware water-pots.
Earthenware cooking-pots.
Manioc graters.
Manioc squeezers.
Wicker sieves.
Weapons
Bows and arrows.
Quivers.
Blow-pipes.
Small pots and calabashes for poison.
Spears.
Nets.
Rods, lines, and palm-spine hooks.
Wicker fish-traps.
Musical Instruments
Fifes and flutes of reeds . . Menimehe and Napo tribes.
Dress and Ornaments
Feather head-dress.
Palm-wood combs.
Necklaces of seeds, beads, and teeth.
Wooden ear-plugs.
Armlets.
Painted aprons.
Rattles and ornaments for legs.
Knitted garters.
Calabashes of red pigment.
Painted earthen pot for capi.
Small pot of dried peppers.
Dancing rattles.
Balls of string.
Baskets for edible ants.
Small dug-out canoe.
Paddles.
Pestles and mortars.
Bombax silk-cotton for arrows.
Stone axes.
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- The North-West AmazonsNotes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes, pp. 291 - 292Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1915