440 ARTS AND CRAFTS OF GUIANA INDIANS [ETH, ANN. 33 
yenne (Oyana), who utilized the couata for the purpose (Cr, 90; 
GOK, pl. 11). Oyana also wore a strip of jaguar skin (GOE, pl. 1v). 
Narrow cotton bands woven on a loom (sec. 55) were worn by 
Arawak, Carib, Oyana, and others. The broad girdle of the 
Guama, of the Orinoco, was made of cotton so delicately spun that 
the Spaniards were wont to seek and buy them for fine neckcloths 
(G, 1, 163). The Makusi 
will plait a thick cotton 
cord upon two arrow sticks 
(sec. 58), and when com- 
pleted will bend it twice 
upon itself in three equal 
parts and, by sewing, 
maintain it in this posi- 
tion to form what is now 
a broad flat belt. The 
Arekuna also wore cotton- 
thread waist belts (App, 
u, 307). Monkey, bush- 
hog, and jaguar teeth are 
also strung for waist belts 
on the upper Rio Negro 
and worn at dances, ete. 
(KG, 1, 167). A string of 
shell beads, or rather shell 
rings, wound several times 
around the waist formed 
the woman’s belt in Ca- 
yenne (PBA, 194). The 
hard-shelled campanulate 
seed-pods strung on strings 
attached to a waist cord 
acted the part of aprons 
Fig. 230.—Manufacture of certain Patamona and for those women not ac- 
Makusi cylinder-plaited belts. A-—H, Four-loop eustomed to the use of 
pattern; F, eight-strand pattern. baails (PBA, 196) erid. st 
the same time served as musical instruments. The huge decorated 
bark corsets of the male Umaua (Carib stock) of the upper Apaporis 
(XG, 11, 27, 122) do not belong to the Guiana region. 
544, Patamona and Makusi manufacture a hollow cylindrical belt 
out of the split strands of the kamwarri, one of the “ pimpler” vines, 
or from the mamuri (pl. 153 B,C). Two strands, after being firmly 
tied at their extremities to the end of a wooden pencil (fig. 230 A), 
are treated as a single strand to form four loops around it, this first 
