420 ARTS AND CRAFTS OF GUIANA INDIANS [BTH, ANN. 38 
passes a vertical series of bars upward over the forehead (SR, 1, 149, 
151, 226). Among branches of Arawak stock [the Juri tattoo in a 
circle round the mouth (ARW, 355) |, female Wapishana have many 
elliptical lines round the mouth (SR, 1, 386), and I have seen them 
with a complete oval ring and circles laterally (B). The Achagua 
women had black mustaches “ with the lines representing the hairs 
so turned back that when the whole space where the mustache ought 
to grow has been filled up, they are continued so as to cover the 
greater part of both cheeks, and then in a curve the lines gradually 
converge until their ends almost meet in the center of the chin” 
(G, 1, 129). [A Passé male, with his woman tattooed in precisely 
the same way, had a large square blue-black patch occupying the 
middle of his face (HWB, 293-294).] The Carib Islanders of 
Guadeloupe, according to Chanca’s letter, wear their hair very 
long, while... they engrave on their heads (presumably fore- 
heads) innumerable cross-like marks and different devices, each 
according to his fancy, and they make these lasting marks with 
sharpened bamboo sticks (DAC, 443). Strange as it may seem, 
there is no evidence of the mainland Carib having their faces 
tattooed—indeed, its existence among them in Surinam (AK, 171; 
WJ, 72), in Demerara, ete. (ScO, 44), is denied—though there 
are certainly reports of its practice by members of their stock. 
Along the banks of the Oyapock, Cayenne, the majority of the 
Indians tattooed, on their faces, bars or lines which stretch from one 
ear to the other, the accompanying illustration (pl. 185 D) show- 
ing their passing from the situations mentioned along and below 
the chin (PBA, 14), for I take it that no “painting” was in- 
tended by the expression “La plupart de ces Indiens gravent, 
. sur leur visages,” ete. At any rate, the Akawai and Arekuna 
undoubtedly did embellish their countenances with tattoo. I have 
come across old examples of the former on the Pomeroon, the pattern 
being identical with that observed on the Arawak and Warrau. 
Brown, on the Mazaruni, says all the Akawai had blue tattoo patterns 
at the corners of their mouths (BB, 64). 
With regard to the Arekuna, both sexes had their countenances 
much tattooed. ... Some of the women had the dark-blue lines 
traced across the upper lip and extending in wavy curves over either 
cheek, but the favorite style seemed to be a broad line round the 
mouth, so wide that each lip appeared to be an inch broader, and the 
aperture itself 2 inches longer than nature had made it (Br, 268). 
Schomburgk also records the face tattoo, from mouth corners to ears, 
of the Arekuna women (SR, nm, 209). At the Makusi village of 
Maripai I saw all the women similarly tattooed with two parallel 
lines running outwardly at each angle of the mouth, finally curling 
