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ARTS AND CRAFTS OF GUIANA INDIANS 
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either end, was much more ample than was worn by any of the other 
tribes. On festive occasions they wore them 6 yards in length (Bra, 
49). In Appun’s day the Arekuna men wore a long length of salem- 
pore (App, 1, 368). In Surinam the Carib women wore a dark blue 
cloth fastened to a monkey-hair girdle (AK, 171). The only dress 
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Fic. 231.—Section of fringed cot- 
ton apron belt used by Wapi- 
shana and Makusi at first men- 
struation. 
of these Indians [Surinam] consisted of 
a slip of black or blue cotton worn by the 
men to cover their nakedness, and called 
camisa [from the Spanish for petticoat, 
made of a distinct blue cotton material, 
termed salempures, salemporas|] .. . 
Being wound around their loins, it passed 
through between their thighs and the 
ends of it, which were very long, they 
either threw over their shoulders or 
negligently let them trail on the ground 
(St, 1, 886). The Indians [around Ber- 
bice] wore no clothing except a band of 
blue cloth, or of bark when the former 
was not procurable, tied round the waist 
and brought between the legs to fasten 
before ... This was worn both by the 
men and women (Pnk, 1, 516). Linen or 
cotton cloth was thus worn by Arawak 
men (BA, 273). Gumilla says that in 
the neighborhood of Spanish settlements, 
or where in touch with Christian In- 
dians, the men, though not all, used a 
remnant of linen which some called 
guayuco, others guarruma (G, 1, 122)— 
some 3 yards of linen (G, 1, 77). Among 
the Carib of the Caris River, lower Ori- 
noco, Humboldt speaks of the women 
wearing only the guayuco or perizoma in 
the form of a band. An Indian of the 
Carib race is far from considering her- 
self unclothed if she wear round her 
waist a guayuco 2 inches broad, even this 
band being regarded as less essential than the pigment which covers 
her skin (AVH, my, 74-75). 
The waistcloths of the Maionkong 
were of their own manufacture, hung with fringes and dyed red 
(SeF, 215). 
They may have been identical with the present-day 
fringed cotton apron belts, also dyed red (pl. 154 B), used at their 
first menstruation by young Wapishana and Makusi girls (see. 538). 
Their construction (fig. 231), which I have not observed in the mak- 
