. Bulletin. Ethnology. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY fBULL. 91 72. At end of section add: Sipo [sippi, etc.] is said to be the Brazilian word for any bush rope. Ropes for nets and hammocks are manufactured from the fiber underneath the bark of the white mangrove. (HRT, 78.) 75. At end of section add: Among the Waiwai, on my recent trip, I saw fruit shells of fairly large size, up to seven-eighths inch greatest diameter, attached along the lower border of the women's aprons, etc., the tinkling of which was due not only to the one shell knocking against its neighbors, but also to artificial "
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY fBULL. 91 72. At end of section add: Sipo [sippi, etc.] is said to be the Brazilian word for any bush rope. Ropes for nets and hammocks are manufactured from the fiber underneath the bark of the white mangrove. (HRT, 78.) 75. At end of section add: Among the Waiwai, on my recent trip, I saw fruit shells of fairly large size, up to seven-eighths inch greatest diameter, attached along the lower border of the women's aprons, etc., the tinkling of which was due not only to the one shell knocking against its neighbors, but also to artificial "clappers" introduced through a slit along the rounded edge. Whether the slit was a natural one or not I can not say, but at any rate it must have been through its means, before the hardening of the shell took place, that the clapper or clappers in the A 9. 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 Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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