BOWS AND ARROWS IN CENTRAL BRAZIL. 



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Brazil and the Peruvian type hold good which have certain analogies in 

 their own borders. Some of the chief divisions in the Mato Grosso 

 seem accidental to the Shingu drainage. Therefore, in accordance with 

 the bow types, the Mato Grosso is divided into a west and an east half. 

 The north Brazilian bow region does not overlap the Mato Grosso. 

 When arrow types dominate the divisions two other distribution 

 areas are revealed, in one of which the wrapped or sewed feathering 

 prevails, as the peculiar Mato Grosso feathering may be termed, while 

 the borders do not extend beyond those of the Mato Grosso. The area 

 of the Arara feathering lies within the eastern part of the region of the 

 Peru feathering ; furthermore, the Mauhe feathering extends its influence 

 on the northwest of the Mato Grosso. In the west Mato Grosso occur 

 also the cemented, the Mauhe, the Arara, and the sewed feathering. 

 This may be best characterized as to the mixed region, set forth as 

 follows : 



1. Eastern and southern region. — East Brazilian feathering. 



2. Central region. — Sewed feathering. 



3. Western region. — Mixed: Cemented, Arara, Mauhe, aud sewed 

 feathering. 



Considering the bow in the same connection gives the following 

 group : 



1. East Brazilian bow with East Brazilian feathering. — Araguay and 

 southern Mato Grosso. 



2. East Brazilian bote with Shingu seiced feathering. — Shingu and 

 West Bororo. 



3. Peru how with feathering of mixed areas. — Tapajoz. 



This grouping is naturally to be taken cum grano sal'is, since trans- 

 gressions and intrusions occur in individual cases. 



In the following consideration of single stocks or tribes it will not 

 always be possible to hold strictly to the plan, while this arrangement, 

 which throws upon the screen a complete ethnographic picture with 

 natural coherence often, as will be seen of the Bororo, must point out 

 the originally component parts of a stock, on account of the differing 

 developments of its ethnographic characters. In order to set forth 

 genetically the types resulting from the original type an assembling of 

 the parts is necessary in the discussion. 



Let us begin with the tribes of the upper Shingu, which belong col- 

 lectively to the area of the East Brazilian bow with sewed feathering. 

 These tribes, which have been known to us only a short time through 

 the two Shingu expeditions of Von den Steinen, belong, according to 

 his investigations, to different linguistic families, to wit: 



Baccairi, Nahuqua 



Aueto, Kamayura, Menitsaua 



Mehinaku 



Suya 



Linguistic 

 families. 



Carib. 

 Tupi. 



Nu-Arawak. 

 Tapuya or-Ges. 



