636 ARTS AND CRAFTS OF GUIANA INDIANS [ETH, ANN. 38 
directly or through a third party (G, u, 125). Indians of various 
nations on the lower Orinoco proceeded to the annual market (fe7%a) 
for curare and returned with the little clay pots more carefully 
guarded than the most precious balsams, ete. (G, m, 133). Now, 
although the Orinoco and Rio Negro Indians prepared the article, 
caravans nevertheless were wont to come from both of these places all 
the way to the Canuku Mountains to trade with the Makusi for the 
superior article made by them (SR, 1, 445-447). The Arekuna se- 
cured their supplies from the Makusi in exchange for finished blow- 
pipes or even for the pure reeds of the Arwndinaria schomburgkii, 
which they in turn got from the Maiongkong (SR, 1, 239). On the 
upper Amazon the curare was obtained only from the Indians who 
lived beyond the cataracts of the rivers flowing from the north, 
especially the Rio Negro and Yapura (HWB, 296). 
$26. The stone-chip cassava graters of the Uaupes River Indians 
were also articles of trade in all the upper Amazon, as they were 
cheaper than the copper graters used in other parts of Brazil (ARW, 
336). Those of the Rupununi River Makusi were brought into 
Surinam by Carib in the way of barter (AK, 281). I had learned 
from the Wapishana, who obtain their graters from the Taruma, 
that the Makusi received theirs in trade from the Arekuna, 
The Makusi confirmed this statement, adding that the usual price 
was at least a flask of gunpowder, but generally very much more. 
T was, consequently, a good deal surprised to learn from the Arekuna 
(or rather the Taulipang branch of them) that they do not make 
these articles themselves, but trade them from the Maiongkong. It 
is this same tribe who are at the present time carrying on a brisk 
trade in graters from the Orinoco to the upper Rio Branco (EU, 
291). 
827. The trade in good hunting dogs was likewise a well-estab- 
lished one. The Waika [Akawai] often make long journeys in order 
to trade and barter with the Colombian and Brazilian tribes for their 
breeding dogs (SR, 1, 198). Similar practices are reported from the 
eastern Guianas, where the Boni (bush Negroes of the Maroni River) 
annually travel more than 250 miles (cent liewes) to obtain good dogs 
from the Carib of the Ytany and Yary Rivers (Cr, 49). Barrére 
also speaks of hunting dogs constituting an article of trade between 
the Indians and French of Cayenne (PBA, 154). 
828. The pottery trade appears also to have been all-important— 
traces of it are still to be found between the Arawak and Carib—but 
few, if any, reliable particulars have been handed down to us with 
regard to the routes followed and the commodities exchanged; e. g., 
Otomac women manufactured clay pots for their own purposes as 
well as for trade use (G, 1, 170). 
