Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . I,315). The methodsometimes used bythe Zaparo Indiansof the Napo River(upper Amazon) intraming then- cele-brated consists inputting a dose of tobacco down the animals tkroat, his nose andmouth being then also stuffed full of it, until he nearly chokes; thisis to clear his scent and sharpen his perceptions (AS, 169). 335. Old Caribs, Warraus, and Arawaksof thePomeroon and MorucaRivers agree in telling me that they originally obtained theu huntingbinas—they are not so sure about the
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . I,315). The methodsometimes used bythe Zaparo Indiansof the Napo River(upper Amazon) intraming then- cele-brated consists inputting a dose of tobacco down the animals tkroat, his nose andmouth being then also stuffed full of it, until he nearly chokes; thisis to clear his scent and sharpen his perceptions (AS, 169). 335. Old Caribs, Warraus, and Arawaksof thePomeroon and MorucaRivers agree in telling me that they originally obtained theu huntingbinas—they are not so sure about the binas employed for other pur-poses—from certain very large snakes, which are invariably to bemet with only in localities so far distant from the source of informa-tion as to preclude the possibility of my ever obtaining Caribs refer me to two snakes, the Oruperi (Sect. 3) and theAramari (fig. 2). The former lives on the ground, beyond che Wainiand the Barima. The latter, which is much the bigger, lives in thetops of trees and catches its prey by pouncing upon it from above: it. Fig. 2. Carib drinkinfi-cup, Poraeroon River, bearing design showingtlie two trees (a) in the tops of whicli lives the wonderful AramfiriSnake (6), while the roots (d) are surrounded by scorpions (c). 284 ANIMISM AND FOLK-LORE OF GinANA INDIANS [eth. ann. SO is also the more dangerous because from it can be obtained binaswhich, in addition to attracting all kinds of game, can attract thunder,lightning, and rain. The Warraus admit that almost all they knowabout the binas has been taught them by the Akawais and Arawak serpent is known as Oroli (Sect. 36S), or, on account ofits rate of progression, Kolekonaro (the slow walker). The tradi-tions of all tliree tribes agree in that, after having been killed, thesnake was carefully burnt, and that from the ashes there subse-quently arose all the different plants, mostly, but not all of them,caladiums, which are now employed as binas
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