INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTHERN MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL OBERG 



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necklace and a few rusty cans, the grave was covered, 

 and there we left him a few feet from the grave of his 

 first wife who had died in the measles epidemic four years 

 before. Then Julio, the chief, told all his people to gather 

 around the grave and as he walked around it he told 

 Marciano that here he had water and sunshine, and that 

 after a few days he would be with the ancestors around 



the stone mountain at Juruena. The white men had 

 not a word to say. It seemed that we were not burying 

 just an Indian but a race, older and more simple in its 

 way of life than its Arawak- and Carib-speaking neighbors. 

 And the telegraph line beneath which Marciano rests is 

 the symbol of all those forces which destroyed him and 

 are slowly destroying his brothers. 



