Handbook to the ethnographical collections . a Fir;. from SouthAmerica. a. Bolus with stonoweiglits. Aryentiiio. h. Woodenchil). Britisli Guiaiia. c. Stone-lie;nlcd chih. Avinara. Ptru. 290 AMERICA tool aiul nut by percussion : but tiint is also used tur tlie points otweapons. The principal utensils are baskets, and water vesselsmade of Ijark. The Fuegians live principally on molluscs and tish ; the formerare eaten raw, the latter usually fried or stewed. When meat canbe procured it is eaten raw. Fire is obtained by striking- togethertwo pieces of pyrites (fig. 7 a).. Fig. 273.—.S
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . a Fir;. from SouthAmerica. a. Bolus with stonoweiglits. Aryentiiio. h. Woodenchil). Britisli Guiaiia. c. Stone-lie;nlcd chih. Avinara. Ptru. 290 AMERICA tool aiul nut by percussion : but tiint is also used tur tlie points otweapons. The principal utensils are baskets, and water vesselsmade of Ijark. The Fuegians live principally on molluscs and tish ; the formerare eaten raw, the latter usually fried or stewed. When meat canbe procured it is eaten raw. Fire is obtained by striking- togethertwo pieces of pyrites (fig. 7 a).. Fig. 273.—.Scraper ,tiiig ui ;i shell liladolaslied to a pebble. Tiei ra del Fiiego. The people go about in family groups, and polygyny is have religious ideas of a vague kind, distinguishing betweengood and bad spirits, but seem to have had no amulets, idols orritual, tliough they had witch-doctors or shamans. The dead areburied, and their souls are supposed to wander in the forests. The Chono living north of the Fuegians on the Pacific coastare said to have had red hair and light complexions ; their relationto the Araucanian family it is difficult to define with precision. 1 Cf. Guide fo Ihc Antiquities of flu- atone Age. \>. ]U7 : bone fabrifator fromGrimes Graves. GENERAL INDEX —TIic pcKje-numhtrs in ilalicfi refer to illustrations. Agriculture, 12. 13. 26. 30, 31. Africa, 185, 188, 195. 196, 198, 200,202, 204, 208, 212. 219. 231, 210,2-47, 212, 213,222. America, 268. 272, 275. 280, Asia, 70, 91, 93. Oceania, 107, 122, ,
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