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dried for a few days, and then soaked in water for about a week, 
when the inside is cleaned out with a stick or else gravel placed in- 
side and shaken. When the larger kinds of calabash are used as 
water vessels a smaller hole may be made at the side of the larger 
aperture through which it was originally cleaned. A string is passed 
into this smaller one, its inner end knotted and its outer extremity 
tied to the center of a wooden handle. By this means it can be car- 
ried in the hand instead of on the head or in a knapsack. 
385. A segment of bamboo is a common adaptation of a natural 
form for a box or case. Such bamboo boxes may often be used for 
holding paint (e. g., ruku), as on the Cuyuni (CC, 50), Rupununi 
(SR, 1, 428), and Pomeroon, even when in a semiliquid condition. 
They may also be utilized for storing fishhooks (CC, 50), and as 
quivers for poisoned arrow tips (SR, 1, 428). Wallace speaks of 
couchés, or vats, made of hollowed trees on the Uaupes (ARW, 46). 
The hollowed out seeds of certain palms can also be turned into boxes; 
e. g., that of the awarra palm for black paint (GO, 2) in Surinam, and 
for carrying smal] shot at the present time on the Essequibo and 
Pomeroon (pl. 83B). That of another palm on the Tiquie, of the 
upper Rio Negro, is used for carayuru paint (KG, 1, 249). Small 
gourds can be employed for similar purposes (KG, 1, 249, 267, 
290; GO, 2). Another interesting adaptation is the throat box of the 
howler monkey for holding paint, as observed among the Trio and 
Ojana (GO, 2). I have seen a Patamona woman with a needle and 
pin case (pl. 84.A) made from the quill of a large feather from the 
“negrocop ” (Mycteria). 
386. Flat, long, narrow boxes used on the Caiary-Uaupes for keep- 
ing the feather decorations and hair ornaments, etc., in, are made in 
the form of lids (pl. 84 B) after the shape followed in the ordinary 
pegall. The material is either palm leaf or tree pith (KG, 1, 296). 
In the former case, strips of leaf are sewn together, after the style of 
similar boxes made by the Waiwai. 
387. Boxes of varying sizes, plaited out of palm leaf (pl. 84 C), 
are found on the Aiary River, where they are used for keeping beads 
and other kickshaws in (KG, 1, 130). The smaller varieties are 
identical with those to be seen among the Makusi and Wapishana, 
and with the play boxes made on the Moruca by Arawak and Warrau 
boys out of split kokerit leaf strips: these can also be made from 
the young leaves of the curua palm (Attalea speciosa) (BB, 162). 
Caraweru paint (sec. 28) may be packed in them. The construction 
of such kokerit leaf-strip boxes has been recorded (WER, v). 
Each box consists, pegall fashion, of two deep trays—one for the 
body and one for the cover—the two components being manufac- 
