BOWS AND ARROWS IN CENTRAL BRAZIL. 567 



Upper Tapajoz is very surprising, and it must be assumed that this 

 arrow came either from the Muudrucu or from a tribe settled westward 

 on the Madeira, since outside of the extinct Tapajoz, who, according to 

 Acuha's account, possessed poisoned arrows. (Martins, op. cit., p. 382, 

 388.; On the Tapajoz Eiver only the Mundrucu knew of this practice. 

 Tlie Parentiutim have a similar toothed projection on the foreshaft of 

 an arrow with bone point. 



Along with the cement feathering is found among the Pareci and the 

 Cabischi related to them the Arara feathering. Still, it is here notice- 

 ably smaller, and there is wanting the stepped weaving customary 

 among the Arara. Connected with it is associated also the bamboo 

 point in use among the Arara. Since there is found in the batterer 

 collection among the northern Tapajoz tribes no Arara feathering, there 

 must be assumed a direct contact of the Pareci or Cabischi with the 

 Arara in the south who must inhabit the still unknown region between 

 the Juruena and the Madeira. The variation which the Arara feather- 

 ing has undergone at the hands of the Pareci is thus accounted for, if 

 the differentiation had already sufficient time to take place before the 

 exploration of Natterer. 



The feathering of the Cabischi arrow is like that of the Arara in 

 length, but shows at the butt end a very carefully cemented wrapping 

 with fine bast (Von den Steinen, op. cit., p. 426), which, as will be seen, 

 exhibits a similar workmanship to that of the Bororo on the Cabacal. 

 As generally happens, the bamboo point has another form here. It runs 

 to a sharp tip with flatconcave section and has at the inner end edges cut 

 oblique. According to the account of Captain De Motta (cf. PI. LX, 

 fig. 17), in the year 1886. the Pareci have the same weaijons as the 

 Cabischi. 



In the arrows of the Mundrucu, living to the north of the Apiaka, 

 meet and cross the types of the cement feathering of the Apiaka and 

 the Mauhe feathering. It is merely a poisoned arrow with a fish-spine 

 point projecting forward, which calls to mind similar pieces on the 

 Upper IsTegro, but shows the usual cement feathering. The Mundrucu 

 must first have learned in modern times the use of arrow poison, and 

 this they did not invent themselves, but borrowed it from the northern 

 neighbors. (Martins, op. cit., p. 380.) 



To discuss the arrows of the Mauhe, living entirely outside of the 

 Mato Grosso, is beyond the scope of this paper. They also have been 

 strongly influenced by Madeira forms. So rest the accounts of 1827. 



There are outside of the batterer collection two smaller ones of whose 

 date of acquisition nothing is known, but from a comparison with that 

 of batterer it appears to have been secured later. One of these collec- 

 tions in the British Museum has the mark " Apiaka, Eio Tapajoz below 

 the mouth of the Juruena." The other, in the museum at Stockholm, 

 acquired on the coast from the Brazilian General Silva da Castro, has 

 no data of locality, but is to be ascribed also to the Apiaka. 



