246 KEW GARDEN MUSEUM. 
round the loins. It is usually a rough strip of red Tururi, or a piece 
of euraná cloth of their own manufacture. What is singular is that 
its use is confined to the men; the women (except in their festas, when 
they wear tangas of plaited beads) going entirely naked. ae 
130. Bone of a deer, with attached cord of monkey’s hair. This is 
fastened by the hair of the head below the — and the cords hang 
down the back. 
Note. 'The Uaupé Indians allow the hair to grow long, and part it 
along the middle of the forehead, after the fashion of women in other 
countries. 
131. * Tail" of monkey's-hair cord. Worn hanging down the back, 
the loop being fixed over the deer's bone. 
132. Comb. This is worn stuck into the back-hair of the head along 
with the tail. The teeth are of the stem of the Bacaba Palm; they are 
inserted between two masses of monkey's-hair cord, which are encased 
in slender n of the culm of Gyaerium saccharoides, interwoven with 
thread of curaná. The free ends of the cords hang down the back and 
are ornamented at the extremity with parrot feathers. 
133. Scapular plumes of the great white heron, inserted by twos, 
threes, or fours into tubes of Uarumá (Maranta Tonchat, etc.), which 
are then woven tightly together with monkey’s-hair cord. It is also 
ornamented with wing-feathers of the same bird, from which the stem 
has been stripped away, and with a tuft of mutün down on each side. 
There is a long pin of paxitiba in front, which is either passed through 
the loop of the tail aforementioned, so that the plumes point forward ; 
or it is stuck in perpendicularly at the back of the Acanga-tára (123) 
so that the plumes stand erect. 
. 334. Tail-feather of Aráru (macaw), with mutün feathers at base 
and a strip of quill-feather of heron near the point. This is stuck by 
the pin of paxitiba into the same loop, but so as to point backwards. 
135. Arm ornament of parrot-feathers fastened to monkey’s-hair 
strings, and meeting over a hollowed fruit of Tuctim (Astrocaryum vul- 
gare), into the cavity of which a small pebble has been inserted. This 
. às worn over the elbow. 
136. Another arm-ornament. The hollowed cones are cut out of 
e seed (albumen) of Tucám. The feathers are those of toucans and 
37. Two pairs of garters, woven of euraná thread and painted with 
