374 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1901. 



The village consisted of three communal houses. These were much 

 smaller than that of the Jamamadi and only fitted for three or four 

 families each. They were oval in shape, 25 to 30 feet in height, with 

 roof coming to the ground all around. There was :i door in the center 

 of each of the two longer sides, with pieces of thatch to be placed 

 aerainst them in time of storm. Everything was much ruder and more 

 carelessly made than in the Jamamadi house. 



The Hypurinas are the most numerous and most warlike of the 

 tribes in this region. I could get little idea of their numbers, some 

 of their villages being said to be still unvisited by civilized people. 

 Their presence on the Marmorea was probably as parasites to prey on 

 the weaker but more industrious Jamamadi. I saw nothing of them 

 in 1875 on this river, and their appearance there is probably recent. 

 They are hunters and fishermen and also cultivate the land. There 

 appears to be no question but that they are cannibals, eating the flesh 

 of their enemies killed in battle. They live in small communities. 

 on the smaller streams of the interior, but keep up communication 

 between their villages, and gather from these to a common center for 

 their great feasts and dances. 



Our return journey on foot from the Marmorea to the Purvis was 

 made more difficult by the collections we had made, among these being 

 a large gray monkey in his cage and a bundle of arms from the 

 savages. The latter fell to my lot to carry, but because of its length it 

 continually struck the trees and undergrowth on the sides of the path. 

 A day of heat and rain and hurry found us again at Hyutanihan ready 

 for the steamer. 



THE HYPURINAS. 



The Hypurinas a (unclassed) are forest Indians. Those studied were 

 living in small villages upon narrow streams flowing into the Purus 

 from the west, below the rapids. They reach the territory of the 

 Jamamadi and Paumari' (Arauan family) on the Marmorea Miri and 

 about the rapids of the Purus, though but little idea was gained of 

 their distribution or numbers. The settlers say that there are villages 

 still unvisited by civilized man. Their language seems to have no 

 verbal similarity to those of the other two tribes to be studied. 



They are much stronger mentally and physically than their neigh- 

 bors and better able to cope with the type of civilization which has 

 reached them. Some of them are employed in rubber camps and as 

 servants, and several have reached Para is this latter capacity. Tlie}^ 

 dress in the tanga, as do the neighboring tribes, and go bareheaded 

 and barefooted. Those near the settlements had thrown away their 

 native arms and had procured cheap guns from the rubber-gatherers 



aChandless, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, London, 1889, p. 501. 



