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former case it may be done to exorcise the evil spirit and so prevent 
him spoiling the merrymaking (WER, v1, 197). The whole affair, 
furthermore, usually ends up with a sexual orgie, or, as Barrére 
naively puts it (PBR, 253), “ to wind up, they all intermix.” Sad to 
relate, however, this intermixing really occurred, as it still does, 
throughout the whole performance, so soon as the effects of the 
liquor are felt. Thus, Van Berkel says “ In the meantime, I here (on 
the Berbice) found the old tag to be true that a drunken woman is 
an open door; because no sooner were their brains muddled with 
drink, and the shades of night had closed in, than all the dark places 
were turned by the couples into kennels, after which they would 
stealthily rejoin the dance, just as if nothing had happened (BER, 
23). 
584. Certain of the dances are, or rather were, restricted to special 
cireumstances—e. g., the Makuari and Hauydari, which were per- 
formed on occasions of death—though Brett states (Br, 158) that 
the former was not exclusively a funeral game (sec. 842). Another 
dance restricted to special circumstances was the Aru-hoho (Jit., cas- 
sava “sport”) of the Warrau, a special festival or thank offering to 
the cassava, either for the bountiful harvest it had supplied them 
with or to insure its abundance, the festivities taking the usual form 
of a dance, song, drinking, and sexual bout. Apparently with simi- 
lar objects in view are the extraordinary Yurupari or Jurupari mask 
dances, ete., met with on the Amazon stream and its tributaries 
(HWB, 381-3882; KG, 1, 186-187), dances which, it has been sug- 
gested by one observer, came in from the islands with the Arawak, 
and by them were carried through the Guianas, as they were driven 
westward by their conquerors (KGF, 58). It was Jurupari who 
organized the dabucuris or whip fétes, with a flogging of the women 
by men, and vice versa. Six of these were held in the course of the 
year in conjunction with the ripening of six particular fruits from 
which intoxicating drinks were prepared. Coudreau has left a very 
interesting account of the festival (Cou, m, 181-191). On the other 
hand, the opinion of another traveler would seem to be that the object 
of the féte was sexual (KG, mm, 272, 293), and the fact of the men 
wearing the girls’ hair that had been cut at their first menstruation 
is apparently absolute proof to him of the connection between this 
festival and puberty (KG, m, 253); but in this opinion I do not 
concur. 
585. The absence of any description of the Aruhoho festival dance 
throughout the literature may accordingly make the following ac- 
count of it, obtained from Warrau sources, all the more interesting. 
When the cassava is ripe the men will go to sea and catch crabs, 
while the women, remaining behind, will make cake and drinks out 
