162 ARTS AND CRAFTS OF GUIANA INDIANS [BTH. ANN. 38 
of the Parou River, the arrows for shooting birds or monkeys have 
a wooden dart armed with projections (piquants) turned backward 
(Cr, 277). A specimen is also figured by de Goeje (GOE, pl. v, 
fig. 7). 
136. As examples of the pencil variety of composite arrowhead 
(fig. 49 B) there are the poison arrows of the Kobéua (Betoya stock) 
and Umaua (Carib) of the upper Rio Negro. Their heads consist 
Fic. 50.—Arrow; head simple, jagged. 
of a well-polished dark red or black timber, into the extremity of 
which a pointed piece of hard palm wood is apparently loosely in- 
serted. The whole of this palm splinter is covered with curare and 
occasionally incised with rings. The casing, to hold an outfit of 
seven, only differs from the one already described among the Siusi in 
more careful execution and in outside decoration which consists of a 
plaitwork. These arrows are not feathered (KG, 1, 132). 
137. In the lanceolate variety the head, which varies both in size 
and material—iron, bamboo, bone—is in its iron stage employed by 
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Fic. 51.—Arrow; head composite and fixed, lanceolate. 
Arawak, Wapishana, Warrau, Carib, Makusi, and Akawai on arrows 
mainly intended for big-game shooting, as the bush hog, tapir, and 
jaguar. With the Pomeroon Arawak this shiparari arrow, so named 
from their word for a spear, is wound just below the base of the head 
with a coil of mamuri in the form of a circular plate, with a diameter 
greater than that of the iron blade (fig. 51 B). The coil is fixed in 
position with a thick strand of kuraua fiber. The object of the plate 
is to make the arrow rebound after striking, and so prevent its remain- 
ing in the flesh only to be broken as the animal rushes headlong. 
There is no disk or similar contrivance on the iron chiparari of the 
Wapishana and Makusi; the names are practically identical. These 
