roTH] GUMS, WAX, OILS, PIGMENTS 91 
Renealmia exaltata Linn.—Kuruwatti of the Arawak. A bright 
reddish purple juice [from the fruit] used by the Indians for ophthal- 
mia(BA, 109). Also employed as an ink, a dye for cotton, etc., and 
on the Pomeroon is said to be the material with which the tattooing 
was done in the old days. 
Other red pigments the vegetable origin of which I have so far 
been unable to identify are the buruburuli of the Demerara River 
(Da, 213), and the wiliko, a brown-red, from the Trio Indians (GO, 2). 
29. The Carib use a reddish clay pigment which is often to be 
seen transported in the shape of a roundish ball just about large 
enough to clutch in the hand. 
30. Inga laterifolia Mig.—Shirada or serada, the Arawak name of 
the tree from which the scrapings taken from the inner portion of the 
outer bark are rubbed with soot to form a black dye. This gives a 
glossy black appearance to such articles as paddles, basketry strands, 
and the insides of calabashes, on which it may be smeared. The 
fruit of the shirada is eaten by the Arawak. 
The allakoidde was a black body paint employed by the Trio, but 
no information is forthcoming as to its origin or composition (GO, 2). 
Kuari is a black dye made from the fruit of a wild species of guava 
(sec. 589). 
31. With regard to yellow pigments I have knowledge of a par- 
ticular clay used by the Waiwai (JO) and the Roucouyenne (Cr, 
108) and of a vegetable pigment derived from the lukunanijio, the 
Arawak name of a plant that I have not succeeded in identifying. 
The fruit of the mankaratice was used for coloring the ite-fiber 
hammocks yellow (ScQ, 254). 
32. Out in the savannas, on the Iveng and elsewhere, there is a 
large amount of greasy white clay, a kind of kaolin, that may occa- 
sony be used as a pigment. 
