. Bulletin. Ethnology. 16 BTJEEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 91 basket swished in the water. For smooth shallow pools, slow action, taking about 2 hours before showing effects. The small fish come to the surface and are caught, the large ones becoming sluggish, but the effects are only temporary. Kowari (Wap.). Leaf, as well as the fruit, are used in similar fashion. Puraunun (Wap.). An agave, the bulbs of which are reduced to pulp in a mortar, and then used in small pools. 210. After line 3 add: as ai-shal to the Wapishana. 211. Line 4, (jjter kunalli, add: The Wapishana name is Fi
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 16 BTJEEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 91 basket swished in the water. For smooth shallow pools, slow action, taking about 2 hours before showing effects. The small fish come to the surface and are caught, the large ones becoming sluggish, but the effects are only temporary. Kowari (Wap.). Leaf, as well as the fruit, are used in similar fashion. Puraunun (Wap.). An agave, the bulbs of which are reduced to pulp in a mortar, and then used in small pools. 210. After line 3 add: as ai-shal to the Wapishana. 211. Line 4, (jjter kunalli, add: The Wapishana name is Figure -Spring-basket fish trap with movable door, from the upper Demerara River. (Sec. 200) 216. At end of section add: On the Tapanahoni iguana eggs were searched for in the sandy places by (negroes and) Oyana as follows: They drive a pointed stick into the sand until they find a place that is looser and thus presumably a passage dug by the iguanas. If now the nest with eggs happens to be in the vicinity of such a spot, and the stick be driven in the sand there, one wdll most probably, if eggs be present, knock into one of them, and that is recognizable at once on the lower end of the stick through the viscous yellow musk of the yolk that gets stuck on it. The exact spot is then found, the sand is cleared away with the hands, and the eggs quickly come to light, (HER, i, 921.). 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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