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ears and straight across the middle of the forehead to each temple 
in front, letting it hang in a fringe. The women also have the 
fringe in front, but allow the hair to grow long behind (BB, 186). 
On the other hand, the women of the Guinau (also Arawak stock) 
‘cut their hair short (ScF, 225). Warrau of both sexes wore a 
fringe over the forehead. Behind, the men’s hair was worn long 
so as to rest on their shoulders, while the women’s was just tied 
with an ite string into a bunch behind the neck, the loose ends hang- 
ing down the back, though in subsequent years it was done up 
in two long plaits. Among the Kobeua (Betoya stock) of the Uaupes 
River the men wore their hair long, while the women had theirs cut 
short (Cou, m, 161). The Tuyuka men wear “tails” (pl. 186 A), 
With Carib generally, both sexes parted their hair in the middle 
of the forehead, and in the angle produced by the parting, or rather 
on the hair itself, they had a thick daub of red paint. They would 
stick white feather down from the curassow or powis (Cra# sp.) 
onto this daub (SR, 1, 365). Behind, the men had it cut short, the 
women wearing it in a plait on top of the head. But with the Carib 
of the River Caris, lower Orinoco, says Humboldt, a part of the fore- 
head is shaved, which makes it appear extremely high, and a circular 
tuft of hair is left near the crown of the head. This resemblance be- 
tween the Carib and the monks is not the result of mission life . . . to 
imitate their masters, the Franciscan monks. The tribes that have 
preserved their wild independence between the sources of the Carony 
and the Rio Branco are distinguished by the same “ circular tonsure 
of the friars,” the cerquillo de frailes (AVH, 1m, 74). This is some- 
what similar to what was met with at Santo Domingo when visited 
by Columbus, where the (Arawak) natives shaved part of their heads 
and on other parts grew long tufts of matted hair which gave them 
an indescribably ludicrous appearance (DAC, 452). In other Carib 
races, on the mainland, variations are also to be observed. The 
Arekuna near Mount Roraima had their hair cut and combed over 
the forehead, and the part thus “ banged ” was painted red (BW, 245). 
Appun also speaks of the hair of both sexes (as also with the Akawai) 
hanging full length down the back, but docked over the forehead, 
where it was parted in the center to form a triangle, whereon ruku and 
a powis feather was stuck (App, m, 272, 307). The Maiongkong 
women, near Mount Mararaca, had their hair cut short (ScF, 
237). Schomburgk, speaking of the Makusi, describes the women’s 
hair as being plaited and wound round the top of the head, while 
that of the men was cut short (SR, 1, 358), but makes mention 
elsewhere of a young Makusi wearing his hair Jong and tied in a tail 
with a long cotton string, the ends of which went round his neck and 
hung behind him in large tassels. ornamented with toucan skins (SeF, 
