. Bulletin. Ethnology. Vol. 3] THE CARAJA—LIPKIND 183 pushing aside a door of plaited palm. Every married woman in the family cooks at her own fireplace, which consists of two lumps of hardened clay. Mats used for sleeping and sitting are spread over the entire floor. Wooden stools (fig. 19) may also be found. Bows, arrows, and rattles. Figure 19.—Carajd wooden stool. (Redrawn from Ehrenreich, 1891 b, fig. 13.) are shoved into the wall thatch. Baskets, used for storing such things as tobacco, urucu, and feathers, are hung by a string from the ridge poles. Large baskets containing vegetables li
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Vol. 3] THE CARAJA—LIPKIND 183 pushing aside a door of plaited palm. Every married woman in the family cooks at her own fireplace, which consists of two lumps of hardened clay. Mats used for sleeping and sitting are spread over the entire floor. Wooden stools (fig. 19) may also be found. Bows, arrows, and rattles. Figure 19.—Carajd wooden stool. (Redrawn from Ehrenreich, 1891 b, fig. 13.) are shoved into the wall thatch. Baskets, used for storing such things as tobacco, urucu, and feathers, are hung by a string from the ridge poles. Large baskets containing vegetables lie on the ground next to the thatch. The dry-season house is identical in form but smaller and of flimsier construction. Thatching is looser and the walls are thatched only about halfway to the ground, the north and west sides often being left com- pletely open. The dry-season village is generally constructed on a long beach and, as the site grows dirty, is moved along the beach. The ground plan of the dry-season village is identical with the rainy-season village. DRESS AND ORNAMENTS The most prominent facial decoration is a blue-black circular scarifica- tion about an inch in diameter over each cheekbone. The ears of infants are pierced and an ornament consisting of a small polished capybara tooth with a feather attached is inserted. A common ear ornament for children is a mother-of-pearl disk with a cut feather fringe set on a blackened thin rod. In a perforation of their lower lips, men wear wood or bone labrets of a variety of shapes (pi. 21; fig. 21, a), each assigned to a different age grade; old men use simple wooden plugs. Men wear their hair long, winding it round a plaited cotton rope red- dened with urucu. Women wear their hair about shoulder length. Armlets crocheted of cotton are worn at the wrists and just above the elbow; similar ornaments are worn just below the knee and at the ankle. These are worn particularly by children and are supposed to aid Pl
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