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deep pools and catching certain kinds of rock fish in their hands. 

 Their religion is a form of primitive belief in the influence of good 

 and bad spirits. Mr. Marsh observes that they are a happy, careless, 

 childlike people, friendly if well treated, very Polynesian-like, wearing 

 breech-cloths, but decorated with beads, silver earrings, and wrist 

 bands, and wreaths of gay flowers. 



Fig. 93. — Tule Indian children. 



The Cuna have a higher culture than the Choco, are monogamous, 

 have hereditary chiefs, families have separate houses, and large houses 

 are used for tribal meetings and ceremonies. They raise long staple 

 tree cotton, dye and weave cotton into cloth and hammocks, grow 

 corn, plantains, bananas, yucca, coffee, chocolate and sugar cane. 

 They are adepts with the bow and arrow and blowgun. 



