306 ARTS AND CRAFTS OF GUIANA INDIANS [BTH, ANN. 38 
in. These are made from astrocaryum fiber on a bent V-shaped 
frame with three needles (KG, 1, 289), but I do not know the process 
of manufacture. | 
389. Clay pots, pans, water jars, etc.—As has been already men- 
tioned, a great deal further research is required before any reliable 
statements can be made as to the materials, pigments, firing, varnish- 
ing, designs, etc., utilized in the potter’s art; and the same remark 
holds equally true with the various forms assumed by these clay 
vessels as adopted by the different tribes. Where there has been long 
contact with civilizing influences, the introduction of cheap tinware 
and crockery has done much to destroy the native art, even some- 
times to complete annihilation. 
390. Among the Carib of the upper Pomeroon and Manawarin (a 
branch of the Moruca), people noted for their almost persistent iso- 
lation, I have found the following types: 
(a) The tomaien, or buck pot (pls. 86 B, 6; 88 B) of the Creoles, 
also manufactured by Arawak and other tribes, is the only vessel em- 
ployed for cooking purposes. It is probably the taumali of the 
Carib Islanders (RO, 491), and is of much the same shape as an 
ordinary cast-iron pot, and of a capacity from 3 gallons down to 
perhaps less than a quart. In this is made the celebrated “ pepper- 
pot” of Guiana. A cover is made of the same material, but suffi- 
ciently broad to serve as a saucer when its contents are put to use. It 
is shaped something like a flattened form of the conventional China- 
man’s hat. 
(b) The tokowari, tucuwari (CC, 53), or goblet, with a globular 
body and long neck, narrowing gradually to its head, which bears 
hardly any lip (pl. 86 B, a), is used as a water cooler. Occasionally 
IT have seen it with a pointed bottom (pl. 86 B, c). Now and again 
upon the body of the vessel there may be a ring of mammary pro- 
jections. The awkward shape of neck, when narrower at its top than 
at the base, tending to cause it to slip out of the hand, certainly 
appears to be a disadvantage to the Indian. There is reason, how- 
ever, for this, in that it is an imitation of the similarly shaped bottle 
gourd already mentioned (sec. 384). The resemblance, likewise, is 
still preserved in the stopper (Carib tapw), which is made with a 
curved projection on top (PEN, 1, 128), but is gradually being re- 
placed by a flat disk shaped after the style of the top of a ground 
glass stopper of a lady’s scent bottle. More than this, half the stop- 
per may still be a disk and the other remain a curved projection. 
(c) The sapera or sapura is a somewhat flattened bowl, with a 
more or less inverted lip, on the two opposite sides of which is a 
