Brazil, the Amazons and the coast .. . oth, as a New England housewife marks the edgeof her pie-crust with a key. If we come again to-morrow,we can see how the baking is done over a hot fire o{ jutahybark;* the pot is then polished with the pebble, and var-nished, while still hot, \\\\\\ jntaJiy-scca\ resin.:]: There are calabashes, and turtle-shell pans, and gourdbottles, and wooden spoons ; baskets, small and large; clay *Hymenoea mirabilis, or some allied species. + Corruption oijj/tahy-icica, Tupi, gum of the jutahy tree. X The method of making pottery on the Amazons was first described fu
Brazil, the Amazons and the coast .. . oth, as a New England housewife marks the edgeof her pie-crust with a key. If we come again to-morrow,we can see how the baking is done over a hot fire o{ jutahybark;* the pot is then polished with the pebble, and var-nished, while still hot, \\\\\\ jntaJiy-scca\ resin.:]: There are calabashes, and turtle-shell pans, and gourdbottles, and wooden spoons ; baskets, small and large; clay *Hymenoea mirabilis, or some allied species. + Corruption oijj/tahy-icica, Tupi, gum of the jutahy tree. X The method of making pottery on the Amazons was first described fully byProf. C. F. Hartt, in a pamphlet published in Rio de Janeiro, entitled : Notes onthe Manufacture of Pottery among Savage Races. A whole volume is condensedin this little work. AN INDIAN VILLAGE. 379 lamps for burning fish-oil, and so forth, Joaos wife has afew coarse plates and bowls, with knives, forks, and spoons,which she has purchased in Monte Alegre ; very often theplates are replaced by native earthenware, and the bowls by. Indian Wonnan naaking Pottery. calabashes, and it is no unusual experience for a traveller tobe reduced to the Indian eating-implements—the fingers. The standard article of food among all the poorer classesof tropical America is the vianioc or mandioca plant; wheatenbread is not more necessary to an American, or potatoes toan Irish peasant, or sago to a Malayan. Every Indian hashis little plantation, and the women are occupied much ofthe time in preparing/(a:rm//rt.* At Erere, the ground is toostony for cultivation ; the poor folk plant their roqas two orthree miles away, in the woods, and to visit them we find itbetter to start early in the morning, while the air is yet cool,and the dew silvers every leaf. The trail leads through a low *This must not be confounded with our farina, which, I believe, is a preparationfrom corn. 380 BRAZIL. forest, almost entirely composed of palms ; there is a thickundergrowth of the stemless curud* from which th
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