ROTH] HUTS AND HOUSES Dyfi 
jawbones of the red howler and couata monkeys, deer skulls, etc., 
supposedly kept as trophies of the chase. But it should be remem- 
bered that the bones of certain animals may be preserved in similar 
situations as charms, etc. (WER, vr, 298.) 
327. Among the Island Carib there was not only a separation of 
buildings for separate uses, but the division of a building into dis- 
tinct chambers. Thus besides a little detached building, where they 
took their rest and where they received their friends, each family 
of any size had two other sheds. One served as kitchen, the other 
as a storeroom for their bows, arrows, clubs, baskets, reserve ham- 
mocks and all their little ornaments and kickshaws (caconnes), 
which they used on high days and holidays. Their little huts were 
made in an oval form of pieces of wood planted in the ground, over 
which they put a roof of palm leaves, etc. They also used small 
reeds fastened across for the palisades, which served as walls for 
their habitations. Under every covering they had as many partitions 
made as they would have rooms. A simple mat served among them 
the office of our doors, bolts, and locks. There was nothing above 
their heads but the roof itself, and under their feet only the bare 
earth; but they were so careful in keeping it clean that they swept 
it as often as they saw the least filth upon it. This they observed in 
their private houses; for commonly, their (grand) carbet or public 
house where they met for their festivities was very dirty, with the 
result that it was often full of chigoes (RO, 489-490). Palm 
leaves—e. g., latanier (RO, 81) cane, and certain grasses—are said 
to have been employed for thatch. It is said of the Carib Islanders 
that the men built the houses and canoes, but the roofs were made by 
the women (PBR, 242). 
