190 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 177 
1671 by Van Berkel (1948, frontispiece map), who made several over- 
land trips between the Berbice and the Demerara. Abary Village was 
about 18 km. due south of B-3 but somewhat farther away by river. 
Ouden-amen Village was about 17 km. west of B-3 on Andabo Creek, 
a tributary of the Abary. Such close proximity to the last reported 
site of the Abary Phase makes it likely that the Indians seen by Van 
Berkel may have been descendants of those responsible for the 
archeological remains. The ethnographic data are unfortunately very 
general, but what is reported on house type, dress and ornament, food 
and drink, dances, marriage and other aspects of the culture fits readily 
into the Tropical Forest pattern (op. cit., pp. 20-28, 70). At this 
time, European influence was still limited to the introduction of a few 
glass beads, iron arrowpoints, and knives. A little farther to the west, 
however, in the vicinity of the Demerara River, white settlement was 
already dense enough to cause more basic alterations in the Indian 
way of life (Van Berkel, 1948, p. 34). 
