BOWS AND ARROWS IN CENTRAL HRAZIL. 579 



to have come among the Bororo from the Baccairi. However, as 

 already made clear, it is not easy to say whence the Baccairi received 

 the point. But therewith also has the contact with the Baccairi 

 belonged, since after the settlement of the Bororo the coniiict north- 

 ward must have ceased. It lias at the present time a stronger assimi- 

 lation with the Guato, the water nomads, which went on until the 

 Bororo came hereabout. So, as at this place the Bororo received the 

 bow from the Guato in this region, these last, in reciprocity, took the 

 bone point. The Uba reed has entirely superseded the Cambayuva 

 reed. To the stout, long shaft, which often, as among the Guato, is 

 made up of several pieces bound together with wrapping of Cipo, is 

 made fast a harder knotty wooden foreshaft by means of Cipo wrap- 

 ping. These are all the arrows with which the Guato are familiar. 

 Out of the originally much diversified arrow forms remain now only 

 two, the one with the bamboo point and the one with the bone point. 

 With the bamboo point (PI. LX, fig. 16) is associated the sewed 

 feathering ; with the bone point (cf. PI. LVII, fig. 8) belong a feathering- 

 similar to that of the Guato type. However, the peculiar form of the 

 barb is always wanting. 



Of the tribes that live south of the Bororo no one is appropriately 

 to be assigned to the Mato Grosso. They dwell together in the deep 

 swampy lowlands of the Paraguay, which furnish the transition to the 

 great Plains of the Gran Ohaco. However, there are some tribes yet 

 to be brought into this discussion, since the ethnographic connection 

 with the Bororo are so striking that omitting them would leave the 

 ethnographic picture of the Mato Grosso incomplete. 



The Guato, already frequently mentioned, a people in their tribal 

 affiliations quite, as unknown as the Bororo, lived, so far back as 

 information of them goes, upon the upper Paraguay and its tributaries, 

 which, at the time of the inundations during half of the year, when 

 their homes are partly submerged, they navigate as genuine water 

 nomads in their canoes. Driven to the water, they live chiefly upon 

 fish, which, in the absence of hooks, they hunt skillfully with bow and 

 arrow (Oastelnau, Voyage, etc., Ill, p. 9), an art which is commonly 

 spread over South America. 



The bow (PI. LX, fig. 10-13), as mentioned, almost the same as that 

 of the western Bororo, has as a variation a thick tuft 5 cm. long, which 

 is shredded iroin the end of the Cipo filaments and wound fast about 

 the bow, serving for a better security of the bowstring. The Cipo 

 winding is cleaner and less carefully laid on than among the Bororo. 

 The bowstring is made from the shredded fiber of the Tucum palin, or, 

 according to Castlenau, also out of the gut of the monkey (Castlenau, 

 Voyage, III, p. 14), and is, as among the Bororo, in its prolongation 

 wrapped less close and fast about the bow. The arrows of the Guato 

 are distinguished by the feathering, the same as those of the Bororo. 

 Along with the bone point, which was, indeed, transferred from the 



