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(Br, 202). When all was over it seemed to be a point of etiquette 
not to resign the whips without a struggle, and while the one party 
were snatching and cutting the others were leaping and throwing 
somersaults to avoid them (Br, 154). Women would now join in 
the fray and beg the men for the remainders of the whips when being 
buried, and with these remnants would then fight among themselves, 
Fic, 339.—Manufacture of the makuari whip. 
845. The manufacture of the now obsolete makuari whip (pl. 181A) 
was explained to me by an old Arawak, who showed me all the 
stages. It is made up of two parts—the handle and the thong. The 
former is built up on a stick tapering and grooved at its distal ex- 
tremity (fig. 339 A), which is subsequently split down crosswise 
