. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 2.—Clay-guard spindles for cotton spinning (Waiwai). (Sec. 34) form of beads, gravel, stone chips, etc., were introduced. As a matter of fact, each fruit sheU was the nearest approach imaginable to a ''natural" form of a European child's folly-bell, and all the more remarkable in that for the first time, some 12 years ago, I had distributed many dozens of such folly-beUs as trade among their neighbors (the Wapishana, and so through them), the Taruma. Two of the Waiwai girls were each wearing such a brummagem foUy-beU. An illustration of such a clapper shell i
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 2.—Clay-guard spindles for cotton spinning (Waiwai). (Sec. 34) form of beads, gravel, stone chips, etc., were introduced. As a matter of fact, each fruit sheU was the nearest approach imaginable to a ''natural" form of a European child's folly-bell, and all the more remarkable in that for the first time, some 12 years ago, I had distributed many dozens of such folly-beUs as trade among their neighbors (the Wapishana, and so through them), the Taruma. Two of the Waiwai girls were each wearing such a brummagem foUy-beU. An illustration of such a clapper shell is given by De Goeje. (GOE, pi. I, fig. 23.) 76. At end of section add: Where the aperture of the bead is too smaU for even the fine korowa thread to pass, the latter is attached by means of a very fine blob of karamanni wax to an akuri hair which easily gets 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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