RoTH] ANIMAL FOOD 183 
hunting bush hog with a harpoon made of bone or iron, with two 
barbs on either side, and attached by a strong cord to the shaft. 
When the beast is struck the harpoon is freed from the shaft, which, 
' dragged along, gets caught in the undergrowth (G, 1, 258-260). 
The present-day Waiwai use a detachable bamboo-headed arrow 
for the same purpose with similar results (JO). When hunted with 
dogs and a bush hog is driven, say, into a hollow fallen log, no little 
ingenuity has to be exercised in getting him out and preventing his 
escape. By the old Warrau and a few Carib of the Pomeroon dis- 
trict, a creel-like cage is made to fit the open end of the timber, where 
it is firmly fixed with stakes, etc., wedged into the ground, and a hole 
cut (if not already there) in the narrower extremity, through which 
the creature is driven out from behind by fire or by prodding with 
long sticks. Once in the cage he can be easily secured. An identical 
arrangement is apparently employed by the Waiwai, judging from 
the accompanying illustration (pl. 44). 
168. In the savannas, where there is little or no bush, as soon as 
the creature (deer) is sighted and is observed to bend down and 
graze, the Indian creeps forward like a cat, keeping the animal always 
in view, but remains as still as a statue directly the animal raises 
its head again. He may take two or three hours to get within range. 
When within 100 paces he mimics the call of the buck. The deer is 
all attention, pricks up its ears, stamps its forefeet, and gradually 
circles closer and closer until, when within 20 paces, the hunter lets his 
arrow fly (SR, um, 57). But all this would appear to be unnecessary 
trouble, because the deer can be walked up to within arrow or gunshot, 
provided that each time the creature looks up from grazing the hunter 
remains absolutely still in the particular position he may have as- 
sumed at that moment (JO). Instead of being attracted by the 
call, deer may be attracted by scent. The Guaybas, Tunebos, and 
Chiricoas of the Orinoco, when deer are to be seen, will anoint their 
breasts and portions of the arm with mara resin (probably derived 
from the Protium carana), and, taking up a position with bow and 
arrow in the direction whence the wind blows, will cover themselves 
with leafy branches. As soon as the deer scent the mara they go in 
search for it, with head raised and distracted, and thus the Indians 
shoot them at their pleasure (G, 1, 272). Other methods commonly 
adopted for their capture consist in driving the deer with dogs down 
to the river, where the hunter will be lying in wait, or in watching 
for them at night in the clearings, or in setting arrow traps along 
the paths they are wont to travel. On the savannas the deer may be 
surrounded with a ring of fire and thus shot by the Wapishana (JO). 
The same people on the Takutu would seem to regard deer entrails, 
etc., as titbits (SR, 1, 57). ‘ 
