496 ARTS AND CRAFTS OF GUIANA INDIANS [BTH, ANN. 38 
and often complicated subjects in a sketchbook. Among the con- 
tributions from British Guiana to the London International Exhibi- 
tion of 1862 were figures of clay made by an Indian of the Caribisi 
tribe, from the Mazaruni River, representing human beings and an 
armadillo. They were the only specimens of Indian plastic art ever 
seen by the contributors (CC, 53). 
613. A game met with among the Moruca River Arawak, in which 
children of both sexes take part, is a sort of hide-and-seek with a 
seed hidden in the ground within the circle of participants seated 
around. 
614. Wooden dolls for the girls are made by the father, and the 
miniature hammocks in which to let them rest by the mother. This is 
what I have noticed among Carib, Arawak, Warrau (pl. 174). 
615. Certainly in our own 
colony and in the western Gui- 
anas the youngsters are very 
fond of playing with tops made 
from the astrocaryum seed, 
through which a stick is passed 
and fixed with cement. Occa- 
sionally the seed is hollowed 
out, and with a lateral aperture 
it can be made to “hum.” 
Known as teréri to the Warrau, 
it is spun by winding the 
string round the stem, and then 
passing it under a tough kuraua 
ring held over the left thumb 
(fig. 240). The game consists 
of the two or three opponents 
spinning their respective tops into a square cassava tray, and seeing 
which one will knock the other’s out. The same method of spinning 
is practiced with the humming tops made of similar seeds on the 
upper Rio Negro (KG, 1, 121), except that there appears to be some 
mistake in the illustrations furnished, which represent the body of 
the top as being held up instead of down. From the same localities 
mention is made of “ tee-to-tums ” manufactured of a circular wax 
disk through which a wooden splinter is passed (KG, 1, 120). 
616. Though blowguns are not used by the Wapishana, I saw toy 
ones employed by the boys with some miserable dog or other as 
target. 
617. A “catcher” or sort of elongated finger stall is plaited of 
palm leaf (fig. 241, F, G) or itiriti strands (pl. 175 A) in such a 
manner that when a finger is inserted, and the free end of the toy 
Ic. 240.—Method of spinning the top. 
