. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. tendouous strings still attached to the boneaoflarger animals. MORTUARY FOOD SUPPLIES 213^ was not detected until the opportunity for personal iuc^uiry had goneby. About the rancherias on Isla Tiburon, and especially about theextensive house-group at the base of Punta Torinenta, there are burialplaces marked by cairns of cobbles, or by heaps of thorny brambleswhere cobbles are not accessible; and most of these cairns and bramble-piles are supplemented by hoards of desiccated feces carefully sto
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. tendouous strings still attached to the boneaoflarger animals. MORTUARY FOOD SUPPLIES 213^ was not detected until the opportunity for personal iuc^uiry had goneby. About the rancherias on Isla Tiburon, and especially about theextensive house-group at the base of Punta Torinenta, there are burialplaces marked by cairns of cobbles, or by heaps of thorny brambleswhere cobbles are not accessible; and most of these cairns and bramble-piles are supplemented by hoards of desiccated feces carefully storedin sliells, usually ofArc(( (a typical specimen is illustrated in figure 25).The hoards range from 50 to 500 shells in quantity, and there were fullya score of them at Punta Tormenta alone. About the newer rancherias,as at Eada Ballena, where there are no cemeteries, the hoards are simplypiled about small clumps of shrubbery. The ineainng of the associationof the dietetic residua and death in the Seri mind is not wholly clear;yet the connection between the strong food for the warpath and the. Fig. 25—Scatophagic supplies. mystical food for the manes in the long journey to the hereafter is closeenough to give some inkling of the meaning. In recapitulating the food supplies of the Seri it is not without inter-est to estimate roughly the relative (juantities of the several constitu-*ents consumed; and the proportions maybe made the more readilycomprehensible by expression in absolute terms. As a basis for thequantitative estimate, it may be assumed that the average Seri, living,as he does, a vigorous outdoor life, consuming, as he does, a diet of lessaverage nutrition than the selected and cooked foods of higher culture,and attaining, as he does, an exceptional stature and strength, eatssomething more than the average ration; so that his ration of solidfood may be lumped at pounds (about 1, grams) daily, or 1,000 Cf. Scatologic Eites of aU Kations, by Captain Jolm G.
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