. Bulletin. Ethnology. Vol. 3] TRIBES OF JURUA-PURUS BASINS—METRAUX 669 intervals between the posts of the outer circle were open. The space between the outer and inner circles of posts was divided by horizontal poles into 25 family compartments. The Yamamadi vaulted huts (fig. 97) that were visited by Ehrenreich in 1887 had an oval ground. Figure 97.—Yamamadi shelter. (Redrawn from Ehrenreich, 1891 a, fig. 29.) plan and were of a very different type from, and far less elaborate than, those described by Steere (1903). Such a discrepancy between the structures attributed to the same tribe is pu
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Vol. 3] TRIBES OF JURUA-PURUS BASINS—METRAUX 669 intervals between the posts of the outer circle were open. The space between the outer and inner circles of posts was divided by horizontal poles into 25 family compartments. The Yamamadi vaulted huts (fig. 97) that were visited by Ehrenreich in 1887 had an oval ground. Figure 97.—Yamamadi shelter. (Redrawn from Ehrenreich, 1891 a, fig. 29.) plan and were of a very different type from, and far less elaborate than, those described by Steere (1903). Such a discrepancy between the structures attributed to the same tribe is puzzling. The huge conical huts of the Tucun-dyapa (Mangeroma) sheltered up to 258 people. A low door and a circular aperture in the roof were the only openings. The large communal Cashinawa houses set in the middle of the fields, were open sheds with a gable roof resting on a row of low posts. Houses of the Canamari, Parawa, and Curina were huge beehive huts in which a whole group lived. Each compartment reserved for a family was sep- arated from the next one by an horizontal bar (Tastevin, 1920, p. 151). Furniture.—Furniture here too consisted mainly of hammocks, wooden benches, and interior storage platforms for food. Cashinawa hammocks were made either in a net technique or of a solid cotton fabric with blue, black, and red stripes. The netted hammocks were made by men and were used for traveling. The hammocks of the Arawakan tribes of the Purus River were made of palm fiber. The Ipurind when traveling improvised hammocks from three long, broad strips of bark tied together at both ends. The Pamnary, who slept either on the sandy beaches or in their small floating huts, had no hammocks. DRESS AND ADORNMENT Clothing.^—The male attire in most tribes was limited to a belt under which the penis was tucked (Canavtari) and sometimes hidden by a smah. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - c
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