. Bulletin. Ethnology. Vol. 3] THE WITOTOAN TRIBES—STEWARD 753. Figure 104.—Witoto house. (After Crevaux, 1891.) Household equipment consists of rough wooden stools, usually made of a split log, fire fans, palm-leaf brooms, pots, etc. Mats are said to be recent. Some villages are protected by shallow trenches embedded with poisoned stakes. DRESS AND ORNAMENTS Witotoan women are characteristically nude, while men, as among the Tucano to the north, wear a bark-cloth breechclout after the age of 5 or 6 years (pis. 85, 86, 87). Other attire consists of ornaments: ear plugs, nose sticks both in the
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Vol. 3] THE WITOTOAN TRIBES—STEWARD 753. Figure 104.—Witoto house. (After Crevaux, 1891.) Household equipment consists of rough wooden stools, usually made of a split log, fire fans, palm-leaf brooms, pots, etc. Mats are said to be recent. Some villages are protected by shallow trenches embedded with poisoned stakes. DRESS AND ORNAMENTS Witotoan women are characteristically nude, while men, as among the Tucano to the north, wear a bark-cloth breechclout after the age of 5 or 6 years (pis. 85, 86, 87). Other attire consists of ornaments: ear plugs, nose sticks both in the septum and alae, necklaces, armlets, and leg bands or ligatures. For festivals, men are adorned with elaborate feather head- dresses, but women wear dance girdles and glue bird down on their bodies. Leg rattles are also used. Teeth are blackened for esthetic pur- poses and as protection against "; There is a little tattooing but more body painting, colors being black (genipa), red (bixa), yellow (clay or pollen), and white (pi. 88). The hair was formerly worn long and groomed with a composite comb; beards and women's eyebrows are plucked by applying a sticky sap. Head deformation is not reported. No item of attire seems to be a badge of status, except that men vaunt their hunting and fighting ability by wearing necklaces of animal and human teeth. Farabee, however, states that chiefs wear two extra labrets. TRANSPORTATION Burdens are transported in carrying baskets or by means of a bark- cloth 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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