664 ARTS AND CRAFTS OF GUIANA INDIANS [ETH, ANN, 38 
relatives of the second degree, only feet, legs, and arms; those still 
further removed, only the hands and feet. The house in which the 
dead is laid is sooner or later forsaken by its occupants (SR, 1, 421). 
The widower must mourn for from 9 to 11 months, i. e., until the 
cassava which has been planted at his wife’s death is ready for the 
paiwarri feast to celebrate his second marriage (SR, 1m, 318). 
865. Ojana (Roucouyenne).—On the upper Yary, Cayenne, the 
friends of the sick man have a strange way of expressing their 
affection. It is to bring into his logie the biggest load of resinous 
wood, which is to be used in burning his body after death. .. . 
There is a platform made of beams, at the back of which is a stake 
driven into the ground. This stake is to prop up the body, which 
is seated on the funeral pyre (pl. 182). The deceased is clothed 
in his finest ornaments; a crown of bright-colored feathers on his 
head; to his neck are attached his collars, wooden comb, and deer- 
bone flutes; arms and legs are covered with bracelets. The widow, 
sobbing, smashes up all the clay vessels and everything else that he 
had used. ... The ashes, collected in an earthen vase, were placed 
on the widow’s hut, and a year later will be placed in the ground. 
There is a general cleaning up not only of the deceased’s house, but 
of all the houses in the village (Cr, 120). The corpse of a medicine 
man on the upper Oyapock was not burned like the others. Under 
a miniature hut the body, wrapped in a hammock, is laid in a hole 
2 meters deep; the dried corpse, hard as parchment, is painted com- 
pletely red; the head is decorated with bright-colored plumes; the 
forehead is decorated with alligator scales; at the neck is a bone flute, 
etc.; and under his hand a bow, arrows, and a club. Near by is a 
large jar, but it is empty. The Roucouyenne do not supply their 
dead with food (Cr, 238). One must not speak nor land anywhere 
in the near neighborhood of a medicine man’s grave, in case of 
meeting the “ tiger ” medicine man who guards his [human] brother 
(Cr, 298). At an Oyana village on the Tapanahoni, Surinam, in a case 
reported by De Goeje of three people dying in 1907, the deceased were 
buried in a house; and their wives and children cut their hair short, 
this hair being apparently buried with the deceased. The houses 
were burned, and a month Jater the village was deserted, the sur- 
vivors having established themselves in another one (GO, 15). 
The Oyana (Roucouyenne), Apouroui (Cr, 236), and other Indians 
celebrated two festivals in honor of the dead, the Pono and the 
Toulé. In the former all the men are covered with long black bark 
strips, starting from the neck, and a kind of toque similar to that 
used by our [French] magistrates (pl. 183). One man alone stands 
up, holding in his hand a whip 8 meters long, which with a swirl- 
ing motion he cracks like a pistol. Each one takes it in turn to get 
