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The fastening of leaf filaments on a bow as a premium for having slain 

 a jaguar as well also as the beautiful decorations on the chief's bow 

 with wrappings and tufts of feathers are entirely like the Caraja custom. 



While the Bororo, just described, appear to have preserved the type 

 of their hunting weapons relatively pure up to the time named, the 

 weapons of the Bororo of Cabacal and those of Campanha, the west- 

 ern groups on the Cabacal and the Jaura seem to have yielded more to 

 foreign influence through contact with other tribes. These Bororo 

 also, already having become sedentary, in the first half of the century 

 held fast to the old custom, were prejudiced against agriculture and 

 continued hunters. However, through continuous touch with culture 

 and with their influence destroyed they are to day entirely subdued. 

 The dispersion of weapons went hand in hand with the wanderings of 

 this tribe. The two collections from these Bororo were brought together 

 at different dates. That of Natterer, assembled in 1827, containing 

 arrows of the Bororo of Cabacal and Oampanha, conies from a time in 

 which the Bororo of Cabacal were still ranging free in the wilderness, 

 but the Bororo of Campanha had then been brought under control for 

 some years. It is now seen that the arrows of the Bororo of Cabacal 

 have from the first held to the original type to which the Bororo on the 

 Lorenzo return. The broad bamboo point of the characteristic jaguar 

 arrow (PI. LX, fig. 8), which is so cut that the knot on the reed shaft 

 runs across the point, the loose shafting of the point as well as the 

 working of the intractable Seriba palm wood to a very long foreshaft, 

 associated with a very short Cambayuva reed shaft is a reminiscence of 

 the old union with the eastern Bororo. , The feathering, however, with 

 the feathers toothed on the margin has decidedly the characteristic of 

 the Guato arrow (-P1. LX, fig. 14), though in this tribe there is want- 

 ing the peculiar arrangement of the nock. Whether this influence can 

 have been exerted upon their westward wandering when they may have 

 come in contact slightly with the Guato, or happened for the first time 

 later after they already had settled on the Bio Cabacal, is in doubt. An 

 association with the Guato, the water nomads of the upper Paraguay, is 

 very probable. The bow manifests no variations whatever. It is about 

 the same simple unadorned weapon of the original Bororo on the Lorenzo. 

 That these Bororo did not know the decoration of the weapon with little 

 feather tufts, shows that the Bororo of the East had not been brought 

 in contact with this technique originally but, as already mentioned, 

 have taken it from their later neighbors. 



The Bororo arrows of the Campanha in the Xatterer collection, 

 which were received from them after they had already become settled 

 by conquest, show an advance in the migrations hinted at. Before 

 all else, the Cambayuva reed used for shafts of arrows was entirely 

 replaced by the Uba reed. The abundance of the Uba reed (Synerium 

 saccharoides), on the one hand, and the influence of the Guato using it 

 and perhaps of the Baccairi, on the other hand, have occasioned this 

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