434 ARTS AND CRAFTS OF GUIANA INDIANS [PTH, ANN. 38 
female, according to Van Berkel, consisted of orewebbe,a certain kind 
of bone which is ground down flat to about the thickness of a florin 
and the circumference of a penny. I have seen, reports this author, 
women or lassies who I believe have had 15 to 18 pounds of these 
little bones around their necks. Likewise in their ears they wear 
short bunches of them to which copper plates are fastened at their 
extremities, though these are within a third as great and thin in 
comparison (BER, 20). With regard to stringed European beads, 
certain tribes would seem to have had a special predilection for 
particular colors; e. g., Makusi, blue and white. From both sides, 
under the arms, after the manner of bandoliers, the Berbice Arawak 
would sling sundry sorts of stringed beads whereof the green and 
yellow are held in the highest estimation; a bunch of 12 to 16 strings 
is sufficient to gain the finest woman’s favors. They also wear these 
bead ornaments wound around their arms in three places, to wit, on 
the wrist, above the elbows, and on the shoulders (BER, 20). On the 
other hand, Surinam Carib men, just as much as women, wear 
around their neck long threads of blood-red, blue, and brown beads 
(karoebe), but never green or yellow. Especially are certain brown- 
red beads with blue at the openings, the so-called boka [Spanish 
boca, mouth], very highly prized, as also are strings of arowepi, ex- 
tremely small, dark little beads which look red when new, or are 
made from the bones of the krarin (sawfish) or, it has been alleged, 
out of the bones of soldiers killed by the bush negroes. These are 
called wit-[i. e., white |-arowepi, but they are no longer manufactured 
(PEN,1,95). [I am very suspicious that the above articles orewebbe, 
karoebe, and arowepi, are really not made from bone but from the 
large fresh-water snail known as kerreketti to the British Guiana 
Creoles and uruabi to the Carib, Akawai, ete., the shell of which is 
ground down to form various articles, e. g., the button at the back 
of their cotton armlets (sec. 540). Compare also the terms “ ouabe ” 
and “ ouayary ” that immediately follow.] The seed necklaces of the 
Roucouyenne, Trio, etc., are made by threading drilled chips from 
the capsule of the Omphalea diandra seed . . . the Roucouyenne 
call these necklaces tairou, the Cayenne Creoles ouabé, and the Trio 
avourou. The Roucouyenne also make a kind of necklace called 
ouayary, which the Creoles know as chéri-chéri. These are conical 
seeds broken in two, ground into shape, and threaded base to base. 
The grinding is effected by inserting the broken seed in a little cavity 
hollowed out at the extremity of a stick, and, in a vertical position, 
rubbing it on a stone (Cr, 285). Wapishana women were seen wear- 
ing necklaces made of the seeds of Myroxylon toluifera (SR, 1, 386). 
In my own wanderings through the Arawak, Warrau, Wapishana, 
Patamona, Makusi, and Arekuna country, I have observed dozens of 
