. Bulletin. Ethnology. Vol. 3] THE TROPICAL FORESTS—LOWIE 25 Lacking a loom, tribes such as the Tucanoans, Witotoans, and most of the Tupl including the Tupinamba, finger weave, producing a twined fabric. Netting is restricted to the southern tribes. On the upper Xingu, netted hammocks and carrying bags as well as fish nets occur along with a twined and a true Figure 3.—Loom for manufacture of thick hammocks. Upper Rio Negro country, Colombia. (After Koch-Grunberg, 1906 a.) Pottery.—Pottery is general, but by no means universally manufac- tured, earthenware being widely exported from c
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Vol. 3] THE TROPICAL FORESTS—LOWIE 25 Lacking a loom, tribes such as the Tucanoans, Witotoans, and most of the Tupl including the Tupinamba, finger weave, producing a twined fabric. Netting is restricted to the southern tribes. On the upper Xingu, netted hammocks and carrying bags as well as fish nets occur along with a twined and a true Figure 3.—Loom for manufacture of thick hammocks. Upper Rio Negro country, Colombia. (After Koch-Grunberg, 1906 a.) Pottery.—Pottery is general, but by no means universally manufac- tured, earthenware being widely exported from centers of production. The Eastern Nambicuara completely lack the industry, and their congeners make very coarse ware. To some extent the industry naturally depends on the availability of good clay. The view that the Arawakans, unless checked by lack of such material, are uniformly the donors remains an improbable hypothesis (Linne, 1925, pp. 162-169). In eastern Peru, for example, Arawakan ware is definitely inferior to Pcmoan or Tupian (pp. 577-578), and there is at present no basis for assigning the advanced Marajo and Santarem ceramics to the Arawakans. It is only in a few centers, such as the upper Rio Xingii country, that the Arawak have a monopoly of pottery making; and if the Arawak introduced elaborate wares to eastern Bolivia, there is no proof that they did so elsewhere. As a rule, women make earthenware, but among the Yecuana and Guinau, the industry is wholly masculine (Koch-Griinberg, 1923 a, 3: 347).. 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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