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goes a-hunting, he takes out as many arrows as he is likely to want, 
anoints the points with Uirarí, and wraps the lower end with Samaiima- 
cotton to the thickness of the bore of the gravatdéna. 
Attached to the Marupá is a slender tube of tabóca or bamboo, 24 
inches long, containing soot, which the Indian applies to his face by 
means of a piece of cotton, when he approaches his house, after being 
successful in the chase; by this means his family are beforehand ad- 
vertised whether or not they are to go without supper. 
78. Twelve arrows (Curabé) and a quiver made by Catauixí Indians. 
The shaft is the flower-stalk of a large grass (Gynerium saccharoides, 
H. B. K); the head, whieh is about 17 inches long, is of Paxiüba 
(Iriartea exorrhiza, Mart.). ‘The wrapping is cotton, coloured red with © 
Carujurá, with the addition of strips of split quill at the base of the 
head. The feathers are chiefly those of a sort of hawk and of a white 
heron. These arrows are such as they use in their wars with the 
neighbouring tribes, and are all poisoned with Uirari. The quiver is 
merely a piece of bamboo. 
79. Seven arrows and a quiver made by Indians up the Rio Negro. 
Shaft of Gynerium saccharoides; head of Paxiüba; the feathers which 
ornament it are of a species of Toucán; the wrapping for one inch 
above the feathers is of the skin of some monkey, cut into slender 
strips; then follows the same length of cotton wrapping, and lastly 
half an ineh wrapped with a shining tough fibre, said to be pre- 
pared from the bark of some tree; this reaches to the poisoned part of 
the head, which is notched round in several places, with the intention 
of its breaking off in the wound. Quiver of leaves of Bacába (Znocar- 
pus disticha, Mart.) ; wrapping of monkey-skin and cotton. There is, 
inside, à separate tube of Bacaba-leaf for each arrow. Bow of Pao 
d' Arco (Tecoma, sp.); string of Curaná (Bromelia Karatas). : 
80. Bauná, Ling. dos Purás = Maiháüo, Ling. dos Miras = Mania- 
cea-acu, Ling. Ger.: two roots; farinha and tapioca prepared from root. 
Leaves. The plant (a woody twiner) grows in forests on the Rio Jana- 
uarí and elsewhere near the Barra do Rio Negro.— For further account 
see letter (given at p. 207 of this volume : see p. 210). 
80*. Bauná-rána. Leaves only. 
81. Specimens of woods :— 
‘Herb. n. 1120. Euphorbiacee. Portion of branch. 
1141. ? Branch. 
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