. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 15.—Rain shelters for protecting boat cargoes. (Sec. 296.) A, Dalibanna leaves on two turu-palm laths (Wapishana, Taruma). B, Dalibanna leaves on plaited spinous-palm leaves (Taruma, Waiwai) (B), made by Taruma and Waiwai, use is made of the large *'pim- pler palm" leaf, with the pimiules of the one half "broken"—i. e., bent over each preceding one and passed over the midrib, under their corresponding j4 _ pinnules, where they are plaited into those of the other half. The pinnules that have been broken are twisted so as to have their undersurfaces u
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 15.—Rain shelters for protecting boat cargoes. (Sec. 296.) A, Dalibanna leaves on two turu-palm laths (Wapishana, Taruma). B, Dalibanna leaves on plaited spinous-palm leaves (Taruma, Waiwai) (B), made by Taruma and Waiwai, use is made of the large *'pim- pler palm" leaf, with the pimiules of the one half "broken"—i. e., bent over each preceding one and passed over the midrib, under their corresponding j4 _ pinnules, where they are plaited into those of the other half. The pinnules that have been broken are twisted so as to have their undersurfaces up. The midrib repre- sents the lower rail of the first variety and the *'broken" twisted portions the upper one. And it is on these that the dal- libanna leaves are fixed as before, save that the vine rope, instead of being looped over the midrib, is looped in between the interpinnular spaces just below it. 298. At end of section add: The lean-to (pent- house) type of perma- nent house was subse- quently observed by me among the Taruma of the upper Essequibo, who speak of it as du-ya. In one variety of it (fig. 16) there was little to distinguish it from that just mentioned, save that the top ends of the rafters rested on a run- ner supported by two framing posts and there was no inside staging. The Taruma names are diwiju (rafters), do'-bir (the four framing posts), dallakakan (lower wall plate)J and jebedomagi (upper wall plate). In the other vari- ety (fig. 17) the ground plan formed practically half a hexagon in- stead of a rectangle. The ends of the rafters were attached to run-. FiGUEE 16.—The permanent lean-to (penthouse) of the Taruma, rectangular type. (Sec. 298). 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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