124 ARTS AND CRAFTS OF GUIANA INDIANS [ETH. ANN, 38 
taste. The two commonest forms are illustrated (A, B). Feather 
after feather is thus inserted, until finally, for the purpose of holding 
them in their relative position, a very fine kuraua thread (c) is run 
through each, tying in its course every midrib toward its thinner end. 
A B 
Y y t y \ 
f i y, fy \ 
f f \ t y 7 \ 
y / \ f 4 \\4 ° 
y if \ j % lig \ 
y j N / e We 
f / h : i aN, N 
( / J i { We Wf \ 
{ } : / pone \ 
Y) iy, ‘ q yj 
is y N y Yj yy \ 
f ; J " 4 \ 
Y Lie y } Y \ 
if y f \ Yi ff 4 N 
f / } \ cH fy UG ee 
NG N / i |Z \ 
/ Y y \ y] j y \ 
i j / , \l7 \ 
: a a 2 Ok \ 
Fic. 29.—Fixation of smaller-sized feathers. 
When thus strung on a twine for the ornamentation of the plaited 
hat crowns, they are subsequently cut to the length required. Some- 
times two, even three feathers, may be tied together in one loop (sec. 
521). On the other hand, the smaller-sized 
feathers may be used singly, as is the case 
with the handle stick of the Arawak medicine 
man’s rattle (sec. 44). 
81. On occasion it may be necessary to at- 
tach feather to feather, an interesting exam- 
ple being met with in the nose ornament of 
the Waiwai. This is formed of two macaw 
feathers, with a small poimted wooden peg 
tightly inserted into the quill of one. ‘The 
peg, passed through the nasal septum, is in- 
serted into the empty quill end of the other, 
so as to give the appearance of continuity. 
Along the midrib of each feather, both front 
and back, are gummed small pieces of colored 
feathers, overlapping from tip to base (JO). Fe.30.—Attachment of smaller- 
82. When small feathers are to be attached skal aie 8 
ornamentally to sticks, as the handle of the Wapishana rattle, the 
method adopted is very simple (fig. 30). Overcasting the stick from 
right to left, a feather is taken up at every few turns of the cotton 
strand and wound round and round the quill. 
