. Bulletin. Ethnology. 8 BUHEAU OF AMEBICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 91 Page 153, after line 5, add: The Waiwai use plain bamboo tubes with deerskin cover-caps for their curare-tipped arrow points. Such quivers are from 9 to 10 inches long and 1% inches diameter; a septum of the cane being left to form the base. A good illustration of it is to be seen in FAC, plate XXXIII. 125. At end of section add: The Oyana bow is of letterwood and is 2 meters long. (HER, 124.) Very long bows, judging from those met with among the Waiwai, up to 8 feet long, are used for shooting at vertical heights, 6. g., birds, m
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 8 BUHEAU OF AMEBICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 91 Page 153, after line 5, add: The Waiwai use plain bamboo tubes with deerskin cover-caps for their curare-tipped arrow points. Such quivers are from 9 to 10 inches long and 1% inches diameter; a septum of the cane being left to form the base. A good illustration of it is to be seen in FAC, plate XXXIII. 125. At end of section add: The Oyana bow is of letterwood and is 2 meters long. (HER, 124.) Very long bows, judging from those met with among the Waiwai, up to 8 feet long, are used for shooting at vertical heights, 6. g., birds, monkeys, etc., on branches of very high Figure 6.—Fixation of string onto bow, etc. (Sec. 127.) Attached to upper end with a double loop (a-e), or with a single loop, a bowline (/); attached to lower end with a simpler form of bowline (g, h). Restoring a bent bow to its normal shape (fc) 127. At end of section add: The Oyana are said to make the bowstring of cotton. (HEE, i, 904.) Some additional notes have been collected among the Wapishana, etc., concerning the fixation of bowstring onto bow. What is con- sidered the best and most usual way is that shown in the illustration. (Fig. 6, a-e.) But instead of a double loop an ordinary bowline (single loop) may be constructed which has the advantage (/) over the single loop depicted in Figure 42, F (WER, vii) in that it can not possibly slip and accordingly does not require a knotted extremity. On turning the bow upside down, with the string loosely stretched, the Wapishana make a loop as depicted here (g, Ti). The proximal extremity of the bowstring is always attached to the upper end of the bow—i. e., as regards the position when the implement is being shot. The remainder of the string is then looped over the bow and finally. 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 rese
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