THE TERENA AND THE CADUVEO OF SOUTHERN MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL OBERG 17 



Annual budget for family of husband, wife, and 3 chii- and a platform bed resting on forked sticks. Be- 

 sides himself, his wife, and six children, the house 



Clothing for 3 children for year: cr. j jg gi^arg^i ^^j^h his mother, a brother, and a male 



5 shirts at Cr. $20 100,00 ■ -r^^ ^ ■ t ■ -s t .^ n i -i i 



„ . , ^ ..r. ei=r ir An cousin. Jtileuterio, his wite, and tile Small ciuldren 



3 pairs of pants at Cr. $15 45,00 i i i 



3 jackets at Cr. $25 75,00 sleep on the bed, and the rest of the occupants 



sleep in hammocks. Eleuterio's wife uses iron 



Total 220,00 kettles for mo.st of the cooking, but clay pots are 



T, . , , , ,, . - ^,„ ., , r n— t,n sometimes used also. The occupants of the house 



Total for clothing for family of 5 Oio, 00 } 



-___-_ eat out 01 clay and wooden dishes. The house is 



Food and other household items per week: situated on a lot in the village and is surrounded 



Mat<5 tea, 1 kilo 3, 50 by a number of mango and orange trees. Eleuterio 



Salt, 1/2 kilo 1, 00 j-,j^g j-^o (Jogs, a hen with three chicks, and a young 



Soap, 2 pieces laundry soap 2, 00 . ^, . 



Rice, 14 kilo 1,00 I'ooster. 



Dried meat, 1 kilo 6,00 Eleuterio came to the Post with his uncle and 



Lard, % kilo 5, 00 grandfather when he was 5 years old. His grand- 



father, who was a medicine man, came from the 



Total for week IS, 50 chaco. Both his uncle and grandfather were bap- 



Total for year 902,00 .■ j ■ ^i /-i 4.1 i j? -n ui 1 i- • 



____^_ tized m the Catholic laith, although his grana- 



Average annual expenditure for family of 5 : father never became a regular church member. 



Clothing 975,00 Eleuterio was also baptized in the Catholic faith. 



Food and household items 962,00 At the Post he attended the Protestant mission 



Tools, ornaments, tobacco, kerosene, alco- gchool until lie was 12. During these years he 



holic beverages, travel, etc 122,00 i- i -.i 1 1 i j. ,, t-, i- , ■* • 



lived with ana worked tor tlie English missionary, 



Total 2.059,00 herding his livestock and carrying mail, but was 



=== not converted to Protestantism. 



LIFE HISTORIES After leaving school he lived with his uncle 



until he was 16, assisting him in cultivating his 



In order to obtain a more intimate understand- little farm at the Post. He then went to Aqui- 



ing of present-day Terena economy a number of dauana where he worked for 2 years as a mason's 



brief life histories of representative individuals assistant and later helped a Japanese vegetable 



was made. These histories, although no more than farmer. He then went to work on a fazenda, tak- 



sketches, give some idea of the economic life of ing his mother with him. 



men who follow the occupations just described. After working 3 months on the fazenda he re- 

 turned to the Post to help his grandfather, who 



AX EMPLOYEE OF THE INDIAN POST , • i i \ f . i • ij? ^i 



was becoming very old. Alter his grandfather 

 Eleuterio Demetrio (native name Oroopa) is 34 died he married and went to live with his father- 

 years old. He was born on a Brazilian cattle in-law, where he remained for 4 years. During 

 ranch. His mother is a Terena woman but he be- this time he, together with some other Indians, 

 lieves his father was a Brazilian. He is married worked for a while on the telegraph line. In 

 to a Terena woman, the marriage having been 1932 he and several other Indians went with the 

 performed by a Catholic priest. He has six cliil- manager of the Post to fight in the revolution, 

 dren (three boys and three girls), one of whom staying away for 6 months. 



is attending the Protestant mission school at the When he came back he built his own house in 

 Post. the village and began working for the manager 

 He lives in a two-room house with a lean-to of the Post, doing many things, such as building 

 kitchen. The walls of the house are made of up- repairs, blacksmithing, and farming, for which 

 right stakes and plastered with clay; the roof is he receives 14 cruzeiros per day. He does not 

 thatched ; the dirt floor is made smooth by being cultivate land of his own. He has been the cap- 

 beaten with a heavy piece of wood. Inside the tain of one of the three football teams and the 

 house there are a table, three long wooden benches, manager of the sports club where dances are given. 



