as Spruce, reported, but without the support of botani- 
cal material, that parvicd was prepared from a species of 
Inga (Bates, H. W.: ‘‘A naturalist on the River Am- 
azon’” 1 (1868) 381). 
Carl F. P. von Martius (Zur Ethnographie Amerika’s 
sumal Brasiliens’’ (1867) 390) stated that the Mundurukti 
Indians of Brazil used paricd, a snuff from the ‘‘seeds of 
Mimosa acacioides’’, having borrowed the habit from 
their neighbors, the Muras and Mauhés. He also (Joc. 
cit. 441, 681) asserted that the Omaguas of Peru use this 
same snuff, and that it was well known amongst the 
Paravilhanas of the region north of the Rio Negro in 
Brazil and in British Guiana. 
The German ethnologist Koch-Griinberg, who carried 
out very extensive investigations in the upper Rio Negro 
and lower Apaporis basins from 1908 to 1905, similarly 
attributed the paricd of this area to Mimosa acacioides 
(Koch-Griinberg, T. : ‘‘Zwei Jahre unter den Indianern”’ 
1 (1909) 823). There seems to be no evidence that ma- 
terial for botanical determination supports his identifica- 
tion, which may have been advanced by Koch-Griinberg 
because of the extreme similarity of the snuff to the al- 
ready widely known yopo-snuff. Koch-Griinberg re- 
ported: 
It is a grey snuff with strong narcotic properties, known in Lingoa 
Geral as paricd and prepared from the dried seeds of a species of Mi- 
mosa. It is kept in small rounded calabashes or in snail-shells, the 
opening of which usually is closed with a piece of mirror imbedded in 
pitch and which, as in the case of the calabash, has a bird-bone spout 
fixed with pitch. . . Snuffing is done through a forked instrument 
made of two communicating bird-bones, which are glued together 
with pitch. . . In using it, a bit of the powder is poured from the 
snuff-box into the palm of the hand and is scooped up into the bird- 
bone. Then the end of one of the bones is inserted into the nostril, 
and the other is put into the mouth. With short blows, the fine pow- 
der is injected to the furthest membranes of the nose. 
In a footnote, Koch-Griinberg (loc. cit.) gives a speci- 
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