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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1901. 



lame: mahituri' 



blind: kona kowkini / 



asleep: Ima kapika/ 



distant: 6takuli / 



near: konaitakuli / 



wet: Ihanga/ 



dry: lplpinga/ 



to kill: nokari / 



to cook: nashita/ 



to eat: ninika' 



to drink: ruhata/ 



to fish: nisapihata' 



to hunt: aiata' 



to walk, to go: nMpinga' 



to die: wachanipg'mbi 



to cry: nlchiM / nta 



to laugh: nislrl' 



to talk: nisamrire' 



to sing: nishipoata/ 



to sleep: minape/ 



to smoke: nawiri plha/ta 



one: hatika/ 



two: iplka/ 



three: lplpaklni' 



four: mapaka/ 



many: itiiri' 



I: nota/ 



thou: pita/ 



he: haitari' 



we: atananl / 



no: kona 7 



yes: fin' 



to-day: wachari' 



to-morrow: atana/ 



yesterday: kita / 



THE JAMAMADI. 



The Jamamadi are a small tribe of forest Indians, apparently lim- 

 ited to the vicinity of the Marmorea Miri, a small stream entering the 

 Puriis from the southwest, at about latitude 8 south, longitude 67 

 west from Greenwich. A further study of the Indians of this region 

 may prove them to be an isolated group of a more extended tribe. 

 Their language is related to that of the Paumari (Arauan family). 

 'Their name seems to be from the Paumari and to mean "wild men" 

 (juwa-magt). 



In 1873 the pioneer rubber gatherers on the upper Purus had just 

 come into contact with them. 



At this time (1901) they seem to be reduced to two small villages, 

 one on the upper Marmorea and the other near its mouth, and they 

 do not number probably more than 100 persons in all. 



The village visited had been so nearly destiwed recently by pesti- 

 lence that but a faint idea could be gained of their normal condition. 

 They had two chiefs or headmen, but these seemed to have little power 

 over them. Like the neighboring tribes, they go naked but for the 

 tanga, this being a little apron of cotton threads, colored red with 

 anatto, and 3 by -1 inches in size for the men and 3 1 >y for the women (see 

 tig. 15). It is supported by a bark cord around the loins. This cord 

 is hidden by the women under a belt of cotton or bark cords as broad 

 as the three fingers and colored red. 



Both sexes pierce the lobes of the ears and the septum of the nose. 

 The men wear little plugs of reed or resin in the ears. The women 

 use as ear ornaments little disks of mother-of-pearl fastened to small 

 cords, which are drawn through the ears and secured behind the head, 

 the disks thus showing in front of t\w lobe (Plate 4, tig. 4). Both 

 sexes use little hollow pieces of wood in the nose. The younger chief 



