210 KEW GARDEN MUSEUM. 
only by the Tuchéuas.) The cloth forming the base is of Curauá. 
White down of Gavião réal (Aquila regalis ?), or of Mutin (Calax alec- 
tor). Feathers of Ardéru (Macaw) ; the yellow ones, from the tail and 
shoulders of the bird, having been changed from their normal scarlet 
colour by some artificial treatment in the domesticated state. String 
of Curauá, smeared with the gum of the Anant (Moronobea globulifera), 
and then rolled in the hairs of the monkey called Macaco darrigudo : to 
make a thick cord, several strands of this are twisted together. 
Note. The hairy cord on most of the other ornaments has all been 
made in this way. 
124. Acanga-téra (of attendants). The framework of one of these 
is of Uarum (the name given to various species of Maranta), of the 
other of Tucúm (Astrocaryum vulgare); the concentric rings being 
strips of the petiole, and the interwoven fillet-slips of the leaflets. The 
feathers are of Toucans. 
125. Acanga-téra (of attendants). Changed feathers of Arára fixed 
on a cord of monkey’s hair. 
126. Acanga-téra (of attendants). These are merely feathers of 
Toucan fixed on slender Curauá string. 
127. Necklace of the teeth of the Jagudra-té, or Onça (Felis onga, 
~L.). The teeth are bored near their base, and a slender string of 
Curauá passed through the hole attaches them to a stout cord of 
monkey’s hair. 
128. Neck-ornaments of chief (Tuchaua). These are pieces of 
porphyry (which occurs in veins in the granite throughout this region) 
=~ eut into a cylindrical form, slightly bulging in the middle and with 
. convex ends. The hole near one end, by which they are suspended, is 
.. bored by means of slender strips of the skin of the stem of a species of 
.. Alpinia (called Pacéva-sororéca), twirled rapidly between the palms of 
-~ the hands, with the addition of a little fine sand. It is said to be the 
work of weeks to bore one of them. The string is of Zucúm, and the 
seeds are said to be those of some sort of Gourd. Stones hung perpen- 
 dieularly, as these are, are worn only by the Tucháuas; those of the 
. rest of the tribe being suspended horizontally, and very much smaller 
in size. 
(To be continued.) 
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