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manufactured. The Warrau name is nabakobahi and the Makusi 
one tapui. A banab is not only built whenever an Indian is on a 
hunting or fishing expedition, or is for any reason away from home, 
during the rainy season, but for occasional brief use at some place 
of repeated resort, either a good fishing ground or where turtle 
abound, or where some desirable plant grows, or for some similar 
reason (IT, 208). On the Waini they are said to have been kept in 
repair, and their presence in the close neighborhood indicated by 
Fic. 68.—Banabs or temporary shelters. A, Rectangular type; B, triangular. 
posts on the river bank (SR, 1, 218). Arawak, Warrau, Carib, Ma- 
kusi, Patamona, and Arekuna may make it of the same pattern— 
four uprights strengthened by oblique supports tied with bush 
ropes (fig. 68 A). At either end the uprights are tied together 
at their extremities with crosspieces, upon which the two lowest 
main horizontal sticks are laid. The roof is then gradually closed 
in with four to six pairs of similar horizontal laths, each pair 
being not only successively approximated but also at the same 
time raised by resting them on progressively shorter sidepieces, 
