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FiGUKE 5. — Poid, or local stove used for cookinfi. The space underneath sometimes is filled in to the floor. 



All of those observed were of wood. A crib for the 

 baby occasionally may be seen, made of taquara 

 (pi. 20, d), as well as an improvised bed, known 

 as the girau. The latter is made by driving a pair 

 of forked sticks into the ground about 4 feet apart 

 and a second pair about 6 feet away. Two strong 

 poles are then fitted to the stakes and other smaller 

 poles or strips of rawhide laid crosswise. The 

 same term is also applied to a similar construction 

 occasionally to be seen at the rear or side of a 



house, on which clothes are spread for bleaching 

 and drying."^ 



Most of the houses in the village and a few on 

 the farms are equipped with factory-made chairs. 

 These are all of plain, straight-back construction, 



"^ In addition, the term is also applied to the wooden support 

 on which a log is laid to be sawn by two men, one of whom 

 stands on the ground and the other on a platform. The term 

 used to be applied to n wooden platform placed in a tree on 

 which a hunter, after t.vinj; a kid or other lure underneath, 

 awaited an on^a. 



