. Bulletin. Ethnology. 140 BUEEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 119 ing or sweetening food, or even as an eating and drinking bowl. Rare. The canari, of earthenware, and no longer made locally, is the name given to the "fait-toiit" or "buck pot" of the Creoles. Other pots and pans, plates, and dishes, grow on trees in the calabash (Crescentia cujete, various species). They are of all shapes and sizes, but may be classed in three main groups according to the use for which they are destined. The largest, with a hole pierced in the top, is used for cany ing water. Others, cut i
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 140 BUEEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 119 ing or sweetening food, or even as an eating and drinking bowl. Rare. The canari, of earthenware, and no longer made locally, is the name given to the "fait-toiit" or "buck pot" of the Creoles. Other pots and pans, plates, and dishes, grow on trees in the calabash (Crescentia cujete, various species). They are of all shapes and sizes, but may be classed in three main groups according to the use for which they are destined. The largest, with a hole pierced in the top, is used for cany ing water. Others, cut in half, are used for pans and dishes, or for drinldng cups (couis), according to size. Still others are made into containers of varying shapes, and sometimes decorated. The lele is a long, thin, natural swizzle stick, cut from the branch of a small tree (Ximenia americanal) at the junction of a number of twigs. The wood is of light yellow color and has a spicy, curry-like smell. Contrary to popular opinion, the bat6n lele or swiz- zle stick is used mainly in the West Indies, not for making punches (the native takes his rum straight), but for preparing chocolate, cala- lou (a sort of gumbo soup) and other dishes of local repute. Canoes Probably the most typical product of the Island Carib is, and always has been, the dugout canoe. The word itself—as the French "canot," which term designates, in local patois, the dugout—is derived through Spanish from the Carib "kanaua," which was their name for the large variety of dugout or war canoe. The Carib name for the smaller craft seems to have been, in the men's language, "ukuni," in the women's, "kuriala," whence our word, corial. The Spanish called the smaller craft "piragua," whence French and English "pirogue," a term now applied to big, barge-hke, open vessels and to large canoes used for coastwise transport of cargo. That there is or has been confusion of terms is obv
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