Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . r without the stones—small pea-like seeds variegated with blackand yeUow spots which, it is commonlybelieved, will occasion the teeth to fallout if they are chewed (Ba, 311), or hardred ones (StC, i, 320). But whetherseeds or stones, the,y usually have someFIG. 4. piaismttie (Arawak), Pomeroon. ou1>of-the-way Origin; the former, for in-stance, may have been extracted from the piai teachers stomach (PBa,208); the latter may be the gift of the Water Spirits (Sect. 18S).According to a KaUfia, th
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . r without the stones—small pea-like seeds variegated with blackand yeUow spots which, it is commonlybelieved, will occasion the teeth to fallout if they are chewed (Ba, 311), or hardred ones (StC, i, 320). But whetherseeds or stones, the,y usually have someFIG. 4. piaismttie (Arawak), Pomeroon. ou1>of-the-way Origin; the former, for in-stance, may have been extracted from the piai teachers stomach (PBa,208); the latter may be the gift of the Water Spirits (Sect. 18S).According to a KaUfia, the power of the mardka Ues in the stonescontained therein (Go, 14). The thicker, projectmg part of the stickconstitutes the handle, to prevent its slipping; it may be WTappedwith cotton thread. The exposed thinner end is ornamented withfeathers, as those of the parrot, inserted in a cotton band, whichis then woimd spirally on it. An aVrawak medicine-man assuredme that the feathers must not only be those of a special kind ofparrot {Psittacus oestivus), but that they must l>e plucked from the. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT PLATE 5
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