. Bulletin. Ethnology. 416 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 167 Tangas.—What appears to be the only recorded example of the modern use of a ceramic pubic covering exists among the Panoan tribes of the Ucayali River, where as part of the puberty observance a girl is said to have been "isolated in her hut for one month, v?earing an 'egg-shaped' piece of pottery as a pubic cover" (Steward and M6traux, 1948, p. 585). A pubic covering of shell is worn by the Zapa women (op. cit., p. 641). Elsewhere in the Tropical Forest, such articles were of vegetal material and had no ceremonial ass
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 416 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 167 Tangas.—What appears to be the only recorded example of the modern use of a ceramic pubic covering exists among the Panoan tribes of the Ucayali River, where as part of the puberty observance a girl is said to have been "isolated in her hut for one month, v?earing an 'egg-shaped' piece of pottery as a pubic cover" (Steward and M6traux, 1948, p. 585). A pubic covering of shell is worn by the Zapa women (op. cit., p. 641). Elsewhere in the Tropical Forest, such articles were of vegetal material and had no ceremonial association. Pot rests.—The use of small rests in groups of three for the support of round- bottomed vessels has a distribution that skirts the Andes, having been recorded for the Movima (M6traux, 1948 b, p. 426), the Cavina (Nordenskiold, 1924 a, p. 134 and map 14), the Piro (Farabee, 1922, pi. 6), the tribes of the Montafia (Steward, 1948 c, p. 519), the Quijo (Steward and M6traux, 1948, fig. 93), the Witoto (Nordenskiold, loc. cit.), the Indians of the Caiari-Uaup^s (ibid.), the Indians of the Rio Branco (Cruls, 1944, pi. 39) and the Mapidan (Nordenskiold, loc. cit.). Tessman (1930, Kartogramm 11) shows a widespread use in the upper Ucayali and Marafion. Tassels.—Anthropomorphic burial jars are frequently shown with a tassel pendant from a spool worn in the ear lobe (fig. 147). Nordenskiold (1919, p. 130), who has reviewed the distribution of tassels, concludes: The use of tassels on cords of various kinds is clearly a custom that came to the Chaco from the culture zone to the west. Within the area of my investigations I found these tassels among the Choroti, Ashluslay, Mataco,. 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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