. Bulletin. Ethnology. 76 BUKEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY (bull. 91 531. At end of section add: What may be called a necklet (pi. 24, B, c) I found used among the Waiwai females. It is composed of two tassels joined by a string, the latter resting on the nape, the former along the sides of the neck down over the chest. (PI. 23, h.) The tassel is composed of strings of white beads terminating in the usual feather tufts (sec. 80). Pana- horaku is the name of this ornament. Bandoliers made of many loosely spun cotton cords, stained with annatto, are used by Waiwai men and women. Where these orna- me
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 76 BUKEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY (bull. 91 531. At end of section add: What may be called a necklet (pi. 24, B, c) I found used among the Waiwai females. It is composed of two tassels joined by a string, the latter resting on the nape, the former along the sides of the neck down over the chest. (PI. 23, h.) The tassel is composed of strings of white beads terminating in the usual feather tufts (sec. 80). Pana- horaku is the name of this ornament. Bandoliers made of many loosely spun cotton cords, stained with annatto, are used by Waiwai men and women. Where these orna- ments cross, both back and front, they may be tied or hitched together. The Waiwai women may also have them made of beads. The Trio similarly wear, crosswise, broad sashes of wiri which are decorated with little feathers, toucan beaks, etc. Worn between the bead sash on the breast or stuck through the bead band around the upper arm is the ipasikile (both Trio and Oyana), a little stick deco- rated with feathers, small monkey tail, etc. (GOE, 9, 10, 11.). FiGUEE 71.—Showing the two bars at the back of a vortical crown that support the macaw tail feathers. (Sec. 524) Figure 72.—Construction of the feather head fillet of the Waiwai, etc. 535. Page 434, ^^^^ iO, after white, add: the Trio, pm-ple (GOT, 1036); the Emerillons, green (HER, i, 979). Line 14 from hottom, after 540), add: On the other hand, this arowepi may be the thread on which the beads are hung, of which Van Capelle writes as follows: Below up a thick trunk creep the extremely thin and long woody stalks of a little plant tliat the Indians (?Warrau) call aroewepi, and is so tough and flexible that they thread their beads on it for the pretty neck ornaments of their own women. (CAP, 181.) Line 4 from hottom, after 285), add: Thick threads of black seeds, instead of bead necldaces, would seem to be favored by the Trio for everyday costume. (HER, i, 938.) These are almost exclusively the black cylindrical (perhaps grou
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