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of this man each has a bundle of a few straight sticks from 2 to 3 
feet long. Whichever instrument is used it is beaten by each player 
on the board to a sort of rough time, and with an accompaniment of 
rhythmic chanting... The time beaters beat on, now faster, now 
slower, ete. (Ti, Dec. 1889, p. 291). Of course it is quite possible that 
Im Thurn’s human may be identical with Brett’s infant figures. 
847. In addition to the White Crane or Makuari dance upon the 
death of a female, with similar ceremonies, there would now follow 
the “tiger bird” (Yigrisoma sp.) or Hauyari dance, which Brett 
saw at Koraia, Wakapoa. After an interval of rest 12 of the young 
men came forward to engage in another kind of dance called Owiarri 
[Hauyari]. These performers carried rods about 12 feet in length, 
on the top of which were fixed small gourds with stones in them and 
decorated with streamers of silk grass, painted red. They ranged 
themselves in parallel rows as before, facing each other, and danced 
backward and forward, striking the lower ends of the rods upon the 
earth and keeping time with the clash. Some young women went up 
to these dancers from time to time and, taking them by the arm, 
danced with them. Then, at a signal given by their partners, who 
shook the coverings of beetles’ wings and other ornaments with 
which their legs were adorned, they ran off to their companions like 
frightened deer (Br, 157). It was in the course of the Hauyari that 
the deceased woman’s relatives cut the man’s hair and washed him 
with paiwarri. If a well-behaved man, only a little of the hair 
would be cut, and the liquor poured through a sifter over him; 
but if he had treated his late wife badly, revenge would be taken 
by cutting off all the hair, and dashing the paiwarri promiscuously 
over him. On the conclusion of the above dance the assembled 
company would rush down to the waterside to bathe, and, provided 
the amount of drink proved sufficient, there would subsequently 
follow the dancing and singing connected with various other birds 
and animals, from the warracabba and humming bird to the monkey 
and the tapir—dances which could also take place normally on ordi- 
nary occasions of general festivity. Everything would finally come 
to a close, with the guests all together, kicking the empty paiwarri 
trough outside the house. It would be well to refer for further 
particulars of the Makuari and Hauyari dances to the works of 
Brett (Br, 154 et seq.), Dance (Da, 271 et seq.), and Im Thurn (Ti, 
Dec. 1889, 282, ete.), though it must be admitted that the first and 
third of these authors, while omitting important details as to their 
actual interpretation and signification, have devoted comparatively 
greater attention to their general description than they really deserve. 
848. “The Atorai, members of the Arawak stock are the only 
tribe in British Guiana,” says Schomburgk, “that burn their dead 
