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Cayenne, the head band (bandeau), made of alligator scales, was an 
emblem of sovereignty among the Roucouyenne (Cr, 235, 238). 
Though the context is none too clear, I think it may be satisfactorily 
claimed that the lowest of the three feather bands (pl. 138 B) figured 
and described as houmari and caneta in Barrére’s work (PBA, 195) 
is really a forehead band or fillet intended to be attached to a feather 
hat crown. Feather fillets are also to be seen in the Uaupes district 
(KG, 1, 283). On “high days and holidays” the Warrau men 
wore a thick head ring of mauritia fiber, to which were attached, 
behind, long streamers of the young leaf of the same palm after its 
cortical layer had been removed for twine making (sec. 57). Makusi 
women wear a cotton overcast itiriti-strand head ring (fig. 18), from 
which depend behind cotton streamers with tassels and powis head 
feathers. They may also adorn themselves with a woven cotton 
band with tassels attached (pl. 139 C). Waiwai and Taruma females 
don a head ring made of pliable bark or wood painted in various 
patterns at times of merrymaking (pl. 189 B). 
531. Necklaces and shoulder belts——The Caberre (Arawak) and 
many Carib will don for “ dress” purposes several threaded strings 
of human teeth and grinders to show how valiant they are by dis- 
playing the spoils which they brag to be from the enemies they have 
killed (G, 1, 124). Some of the old men (Carib Islanders) wore 
around their necks small bones of Arawak (PBR, 247). So also the 
Arawak generally wear a great quantity of necklaces, consisting 
of the teeth of “ tigers,” alligators, and wild boars (pls. 141 A; 146 B), 
which they have themselves killed; and these they wear as trophies 
of their skill and prowess in hunting (StC, 309-310). Stedman 
makes a similar remark of the Surinam Indians with regard to the 
sash of boars’ or tigers’ teeth worn across the shoulder as a token of 
their valor and activity (St, 1, 388). Arawak women and children 
may also sport teeth of the deer, jaguar, and water haas (pl. 141 B). 
Arekuna sported necklaces of monkey teeth, peccary teeth, and porcu- 
pine quills, to which were attached long cotton fringes hanging down 
their backs, and suspending squirrel, toucan, and various other skins 
(ScF, 204; SR, 1, 208-209). Such tassels of toucan skins and other 
bird’s feathers, cotton fringes with pompons, etc., attached to a neck- 
lace of peccary teeth, were worn hanging down the back also by 
Akawai (CC, 53) and other Carib tribes (GOK, pl. u, figs. 3, 9, 10), 
but never by the women. Arekuna women might, on the other hand, 
use for necklaces the incisor teeth of the agouti (pl. 147 A) and labba, 
or the canines of monkeys (SR, mu, 208). Makusi men arrayed 
themselves in belts of wild hog teeth from the tops of their shoul- 
ders, crossing the breast and back and falling on the hip on the oppo- 
site side (BE, 120). It is very common to see Makusi, Patamona, 
