. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. CIRCUM-CARIBBEAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN RAIN FOREST. The warlike Jivaro are clever hunters with the blow gun, which they use solely to kill game. They are skilled crafts- men in feathers, weav- ing, and pottery. Selected objects and photographic color transparencies interpret the basic economy, traditional manufactures, and social life of the Carib and Arawak tribes in the jungles and savannas of the Guianas. A shrunken head, war trophy of the Jivaro, is contrasted with the outline of a life-sized head. A diorama recrea
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. CIRCUM-CARIBBEAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN RAIN FOREST. The warlike Jivaro are clever hunters with the blow gun, which they use solely to kill game. They are skilled crafts- men in feathers, weav- ing, and pottery. Selected objects and photographic color transparencies interpret the basic economy, traditional manufactures, and social life of the Carib and Arawak tribes in the jungles and savannas of the Guianas. A shrunken head, war trophy of the Jivaro, is contrasted with the outline of a life-sized head. A diorama recreates in realistic miniature the moment when the Lucayan Indians of the Bahamas in 1492 discovered Columbus' ships on the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum. [Washington] : Smithsonian Institution
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