Handbook to the ethnographical collections . often palisaded. Pile dwellings were oncecommon on the north coast; those on the shores of LakeMaracaybo gave rise to the name Venezuela or Little Venice .Cooking-pots, mats, baskets, wooden stools and hammocks wovenof cotton or bast, are the principal furniture. The food of theIndians consists of the flesh of fowls, monkeys, peccaries, iLc, andmanioc, maize, sweet-potatoes, (S:c. Cultivation is primitive, and SOUTH AMERICA 281 the principal agricultural implement was a stick. From maniocCassava bread is prepared, the grated root being washed andstr
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . often palisaded. Pile dwellings were oncecommon on the north coast; those on the shores of LakeMaracaybo gave rise to the name Venezuela or Little Venice .Cooking-pots, mats, baskets, wooden stools and hammocks wovenof cotton or bast, are the principal furniture. The food of theIndians consists of the flesh of fowls, monkeys, peccaries, iLc, andmanioc, maize, sweet-potatoes, (S:c. Cultivation is primitive, and SOUTH AMERICA 281 the principal agricultural implement was a stick. From maniocCassava bread is prepared, the grated root being washed andstrained in the Zehacan, an elastic tube of plaited reeds witha loop at each end. The tube is filled with wet meal, and one loopis passed over a rafter or pole. At this stage it is a short thickcylinder. The lower end is then steadily pulled until the wateris all strained out, and the length of the cylinder is manioc roots were grated on a board set with sharp pointsof quartz, instruments made in great numbers in the Ijasins of the. Fio. 263.—Wooden clubs from British Guiana, c. With stone With wooden imitation. upper Amazon and Orinoco (fig. 260). Various tribes of SouthAmerica still consume edible earth or clay. Intoxicating drinks, made from palms, cassava (fig. 261), maize,bananas, &c., were in use before the arrival of Europeans ; adecoction of cocoa-beans was also known. Tobacco-smoking andsnufl-taking were almost universal (fig. 2()2); it was from theArawak that the was introduced into Europe in the six-teenth century. >Snuft was not taken in the European manner.)>ut by the use of tubes of bone, single or double, by means ofwhich it was inhaled into the nostrils (fig. 259. 2). Two kinds ofsnuff are employed, powdered tobacco, and jXOvVcf or cunipa, made 282 AMERICA from the pulverized seeds of theFiptadenki Niopo ; the hxtter is l)yfar the more powerful narcotic. Snuft-taking is common in thebasins of the Amazon and its tribu-taries, and
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