62 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 70 



The First Day of the Feast: Utsandowai, "The Feast is Opened" 



(PI. 7) 



Those guests who have come from far arrive at the house of the 

 feast on the eve of the day fixed for the same. They do not, how- 

 ever, enter the house, but pass the night in provisional ranches made 

 outside. It is not until the following morning at 5 o'clock that the 

 doors are opened and the guests can enter. By and by the guests 

 who live near arrive. Before entering the house all arrange their 

 dress, which the Jibaro Indian always does when he is about to make 

 a visit in another house. In a sort of net bag (shigm), carried on 

 the back, the men have brought with them their best clothing and 

 ornaments, first of all a new loin cloth (itipi). In another smaller 

 bag they carry a comb, a small mirror, a small round gourd contain- 

 ing a red dye for painting the body, called 7nushpa or aratinyu, 

 as well as certain other small things. At a rivulet the Indian makes 

 his toilet; he unties his thick hair, washes it, combs it, and ties it up 

 again in the three usual pigtails. The band with which the big 

 pigtail at the neck is wound around is adorned with toucan feathers 

 and human hair. On his head he places some feather ornament, a 

 crown made of red and yellow toucan feathers, called tawasa, or 

 another ornament of yellow macaw feathers, which is tied round the 

 head, and is called tendearma. Older warriors are often seen wear- 

 ing a sort of cap of monkey's skin or an ornament made of squirrels' 

 tails {kunamhi). The face, and especially the region around the eyes, 

 is painted red in diffei-ent ways, some Indians simply coating the 

 face with the paint, others applying geometrical patterns to it. A 

 new loin cloth {itipi) is always put on before entering the house, a 

 girdle of human hair {akdchu) being used to fix it with. Some addi- 

 tional ornaments are put on later for the dance at night. 



The women always pay less attention to their dress and wear 

 fewer ornaments than the men. The principal garment of the 

 Avomen is called tardclii^ and a new one is as a rule made for a 

 feast. Since weaving is an industry exclusively incumbent on the 

 men, these always make the clothes of their wives. On the crown 

 of the head the women on festive occasions generally wear a red- 

 painted cotton band, called tir'iangsa. In the ear lobes they wear 

 similar sticks {anisa) as do the men, but much smaller, and besides, 

 in the lower lip a small pin of wood which is called tukutiu. Botli 

 the arusa and the tukunu are mostly oraamented with incised fig- 

 ures. 



For the dances the women also paint their faces, although not 

 as much as the men. Around their necks the women wear a neck- 

 lace of beads called shauka, and the upper arms are tied around 



