Pioneering in south BrazilThree years of forest and prairie life in the province of Paraná . reentirely naked, though in the rancho was found acoarse garment, something of the texture of cocoa-nutmatting, apparently designed less for ordinary wearthan as a coat of mail to resist the claws of wild beastsor the arrows of an enemy. Men, women, and childrenall wore tlieir haii- alike, that is, cut short over theeyes, but hanging in tangled masses down the sides andback of the head. All were adorned with toucansfeathers, stuck to the hair with Avax. INIost of them worebead necklaces, the beads bein
Pioneering in south BrazilThree years of forest and prairie life in the province of Paraná . reentirely naked, though in the rancho was found acoarse garment, something of the texture of cocoa-nutmatting, apparently designed less for ordinary wearthan as a coat of mail to resist the claws of wild beastsor the arrows of an enemy. Men, women, and childrenall wore tlieir haii- alike, that is, cut short over theeyes, but hanging in tangled masses down the sides andback of the head. All were adorned with toucansfeathers, stuck to the hair with Avax. INIost of them worebead necklaces, the beads being little black seedsthrough which a hole had been pierced for the recep-tion of tlie string. Amongst other curious things suchas tooth necklaces, string amulets, and the like, wefound two articles which Luco said were deer was a collection of dried deer and pig trotters,perhaps five-aud-twcnty in number, each secured toseparated pieces of string, the free ends of wliidi weretied altogether, so as to leave about six inches phiy foreach trotter, thus foniiing a kind of rattle. 11. ,1 I «TOXK AXK AND WouDKN AHIfoW lISi;i) HV li( I |(i( ) INltlANH. No. 1 —Kor jn^mir Nlmotiiitf from (\iii1i\isc-nclpH. No8. J, find 4. —Kor tapir, (li;ur, pig, ami (lie liirifcr monkeys. No. a.—I*or birds unU the Huinllor kindH of monkeys. [Vol. II., i>. 127. CH. XVI. Dotocudo Weapons. 127 The second was like a babys toy, being merely a<lry gourd attached to a short handle. This gourd (-(tn-tainod st-cds, which had been put in tlirougli a .smallliole, whicli liad altcrwards been closed with another kind of rattle was obtained wliich serveda similar purpose as the first. A lasso made of the bark of the black c\})o was alsofound in the riDicho. Before this, we had seen a simi-lar lasso set in a tapir track, and no doubt the Boto-cudos obtain theii* food as much in this way, as b}shooting with arrows. There were four kinds of arrow heads amongst thebu
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