. Bulletin. Ethnology. Vol. 3] TRIBES OF EASTERN BOLIVIA AND MADEIRA 443 tribes also drug fish with the milky sap of the soliman tree (Hura crepitans). Domesticated animals.—The dog was not introduced to the Tacana before the 19th century. The wild Tiatinagua have chickens and dogs. Present-day Maropa are good horsemen and cattle herders. Food preparation.—Bananas and plantains, the staple foods of most Tacana with the exception of the Araona, are usually roasted. Maize is ground between two stones or in a wooden trough with a big semicircular wooden slab (fig. 55). As the Tiatinagua and Chani
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Vol. 3] TRIBES OF EASTERN BOLIVIA AND MADEIRA 443 tribes also drug fish with the milky sap of the soliman tree (Hura crepitans). Domesticated animals.—The dog was not introduced to the Tacana before the 19th century. The wild Tiatinagua have chickens and dogs. Present-day Maropa are good horsemen and cattle herders. Food preparation.—Bananas and plantains, the staple foods of most Tacana with the exception of the Araona, are usually roasted. Maize is ground between two stones or in a wooden trough with a big semicircular wooden slab (fig. 55). As the Tiatinagua and Chania have little or no. Figure 55.—Tiatinagua woman making cornmeal. (After Farabee, 1922.) pottery, they roast or steam food, especially fish, in green bamboo tubes placed on the fire; the food is cooked before the vessel burns through. The 17th-century Indians of Apolobamba baked game and fish in earth ovens. Any surplus of meat is roasted and smoked on a rectangular babracot. Instead of salt, the Araona add the ashes of maize stalks to food. When they travel, the Araona eat maize flour mixed with roasted and ground Brazil nuts. They grind dry fish into a flour which they store for the rainy season. HOUSES AND VILLAGES The Araona live in large communal huts, which average 60 feet ( m.) in length and 20 feet ( m.) in width, and shelter as many as 20 families. Such dwellings, covered with skilfully imbricated leaves, endure for many years. These Indians, however, spend their nights in small conical cabins which are tightly closed to keep out mosquitoes and vampire bats. In the 17th century, the Maropa huts accommodated from 100 to 200 people. Tiatinagua and Chama huts are simple windbreaks, made of a single row of large leaves stuck into the ground, or they are flimsy vaulted structures made of stalks of Gynerium sagittatum and covered with 653333—47—31. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for
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