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an arrow with bamboo knife-blade point. (PI. LYII, fig. 13.) However, 

 this point deviates from that of the Suya in form, and resembles much 

 more that of the Vurnna or of the Tapajoz. region. It is strongly 

 probable that the arrow came hither from the Ynrnna, but perhaps it 

 is a reminiscence of the earlier home of the Baccairi npon the Arinos. 



Of the feathering I have briefly written in the general classification. 

 (PI. LVII, fig. 9.) Let it be here simply remarked that the variegated 

 feathers of different birds are bound on in spiral wrappings of 90 

 degrees. At the nock end is generally found a wrapping of thread in 

 staircase pattern as on the Aueto bow, which is laid over a ring cut 

 from the bark of the wambi (Philodendron), to which is also fastened 

 a little ring of red feathers. Sometimes the feathers are wanting, and 

 only the wrapping with the bark ring and feather tuft remains. The 

 nock is small and round. 



On some arrows of the Suya, who must have wandered, according 

 to tradition, from the great stock of the Gez, on the Araguay and 

 Tocantins to the west as far as the Tapajoz and back to the Shingu, 

 occurs also east Brazilian feathering. Both wrapping material. for 

 feathers are made from white bast. Moreover, on the tip of the shaft 

 is fastened a tucum nut (PI. LVII, fig. 10) bored with holes, by means of 

 which it sends forth in flight a clear sound. This toy is in vogue on 

 the Tocantins as well as on the Tapajos, and also among the Arara on 

 the Madeira; it is also spread among the Suya from east to west. A 

 circular band of color on the shaftment of some Baccairi arrows, as 

 well as the custom all along the Shingu of binding the shaft and fore 

 shaft with windings of bast, hints at Eastern influence. 



In briefly recapitulating we must recognize decidedly an influence 

 from the East. It appears, moreover, that the more southern tribes had 

 been less overcome thereby. Upon the relationship of the eastern Bac- 

 cairi to the western Baccairi on the Arinos the language must be the 

 decider. 



Furthermore, among the tribes of the Upper Shingu still in use among 

 the Cayapo (PI. LIX, fig. 17), is found the sewed feathering, which, 

 according to the report of Yon den Steinen (op. cit, p. 155), has 

 intruded itself from the majority of the tribes on the Araguay and 

 Tocantins to those of the upper confluence of the Paranatinga, belong- 

 ing to the drainage of the Tapajoz, in friendly relationship with the 

 Baccairi and Nahuqua. However, since they have preserved in arrows 

 and bows almost completely the characteristics of their principal tribes, 

 it will be more seasonable to treat of them in the discussion of the 

 eastern groups. Outside of tribes of the upper Tapajoz, treated of in 

 that which follows, who in addition to other styles possess the sewed 

 feathering, it is interesting to find in the Marine Museum at Rotterdam 

 arrows with sewed feathering from the lower Tocantins, from the Teuibe, 

 and from an unknown tribe on the mainland opposite the Ilha de Arco. 

 Perhaps it was from this unknown tribe that the Tembe on the other 



