. Bulletin. Ethnology. THE CHOCQi By David B. Stout CULTURE SUBSISTENCE ACTIVITIES The relative importance of agriculture and hunting and fishing varies with the environment in which the several Choco groups live. Agricul- ture is limited to food crops—plaintains, bananas, sweet manioc, sugar- cane, maize, and several fruit trees. No tobacco or cotton is grown. Deer, peccaries, armadillos, agoutis, monkeys, and several species of birds are hunted with the bow and arrow and blowgun, and fish are caught with nets, spears, bows and arrows, and poisons. Domestic animals are dogs, pigs, chickens, a
. Bulletin. Ethnology. THE CHOCQi By David B. Stout CULTURE SUBSISTENCE ACTIVITIES The relative importance of agriculture and hunting and fishing varies with the environment in which the several Choco groups live. Agricul- ture is limited to food crops—plaintains, bananas, sweet manioc, sugar- cane, maize, and several fruit trees. No tobacco or cotton is grown. Deer, peccaries, armadillos, agoutis, monkeys, and several species of birds are hunted with the bow and arrow and blowgun, and fish are caught with nets, spears, bows and arrows, and poisons. Domestic animals are dogs, pigs, chickens, and ducks. VILLAGES AND HOUSES Dwellings are erected on piles and are scattered along the rivers. These houses are round and lack walls. The apex of the roof is often surmounted with a clay vessel (pi. 53, a). Several platforms for sleep- ing and storage are raised above the floor level. Hammocks are used only for children. Adults sleep on a pallet of bark cloth with their heads on wooden pillows. Other furniture includes 1-piece wooden seats (fig. 61) and mosquito Figure 61.—Choco wooden seats and headrests. (Approximately % actual size.) (After Wassen, 1935, fig. 10.) * See map 6. The cultural data refer to the present day unless an earlier period is indicated. 6S3334—48 19 269. 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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