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strip of the tough bark of Jébarú (a Czesalpineous tree, with handsome 
red monopetalous flowers, apparently the Parivoa grandiflora of Aublet), 
which descends in widening folds to some distance below the tube; 
thus forming a sort of trumpet, which is simply blown into at the upper 
end. I cannot find that the Juruparís are objects of actual adoration, 
but they certainly are of fear and respect. No woman is ever permitted 
to see them, and should such a circumstance occur, the woman is cer- 
tainly put to death, generally by poison, though the sight should have 
been accidental on her part. Youths are not permitted to handle or 
blow the Juruparís before the age of puberty, and must previously have 
undergone a series of fastings and scourgings. The Juruparis are kept 
hidden in the bed of some stream deep in the forest, in which no one 
dares to drink or bathe; and they are brought out only by night, and 
blown outside the house where the feast is held, in order that no woman 
may obtain a sight of them. 
174. Three shirts of Tururí, called Técaé by the Cubéu Indians on 
the Rio Uaupés, who use them in their funeral feasts, when they drink 
the ashes of the bones of their deceased relatives. There are two sorts 
of Tururí; the common red, which is the bark of a large Artocarpeous 
tree, allied to Antiaris, frequent on Rio Negro and Casiquiare, and of 
_ which I procured specimens at São Gabriel: it is used for bags, for 
caulking canoes, and on the Guaima and Casiquiare (where it is called 
Marimá) a rude kind of shirt is made of it. The Tururi-moroting4, 
or white Tururí, of which the bodies of the Zécaé are made, is the bark 
of a real Fig, a low terrestrial species, which I could not distinguish by 
the leaves from a species I had gathered near São Gabriel. The arms 
_ of the shirts are of red Tururí; the fringes of Sapucaya Castanha (a 
name applied to all the large-fruited Lecythides), The colours used in 
painting them are carajurü or anatto for red, and soot for black. 
18. Guayácu of stout cotton cloth, woven by the Piaroa Indians on 
the Orinoco, and worn by them and the Maquiritares. It is 5 or 6 feet 
long by about 20 inches wide, and has a tassel at each corner. It is 
worn between the thighs, secured by a string passing round the loins, 
and the free portion either hangs down behind, or is passed up the 
back and over the left shoulder. 
16. Two baskets of strips of rind of various species of Maranta, 
by Maquiritare Indians on the Rio Cunucunuma, and used by 
1 for holding their tinder-box, fish-hooks, arrow-heads, etc. 
