ROTH] HAMMOCKS 399 
482. For slinging hammocks in the open where suitable trees are 
not available, e. g., on the rocky banks of the Oyapock River, the 
Oyampi use a contrivance known as the pataoua (pl. 130 A). This 
consists of three poles tied together, tripod fashion, at the top, to 
which three hammocks are tied below (Cr, 156). Coudreau reports 
a similar apparatus from the Rio Negro. Or, again, out in the 
savannas, the sticks may be inserted independently of each other 
(pl. 129 D). 
