580 BOWS AND ARROWS IN CENTRAL BRAZIL. 



Bororo, and also with a harpoon arrow with unilaterally barbed point, 

 there is in the Rhode collection a bamboo poiut (PI. LX, fig. 15) 

 having nothing in common with those of the Bororo. It is narrow, 

 is a flattened circle in cross section, and is made fast upon the 

 short foreshaft by means of a narrow band of Cipo wrapping merely, 

 and the foresliaft is not, as generally, inserted into the point, but is 

 spliced on. The batterer collection famishes the same style of arrow, 

 but only with bone point. Arrow shafts made from pieces joined, 

 already mentioned among the eastern Bororo, are held together among 

 the Gnato with fish glue. (Oasteluau, op. cit., Ill, p. 14.) 



The feathering (Plate LX, fig. 14) of the Guato arrow is worthy of 

 remark in its deviations from that of the Bororo. Generally one half 

 of the plume of the feather is cut toothed, as also partly among the 

 Bororo of Cabacal. The fastening of the smooth feather lying flat on 

 the shaft is effected in the customary technique of the eastern Brazil- 

 ian type by means of a cotton thread at the inner and outer end, which 

 is blackened at the upper extremity. Sometimes Cipo is also utilized, 

 which mostly continues from the upper wrapping to the lower in a longer 

 spiral, simply encircling the shaft. This also calls to mind similar ones 

 occurring among the eastern Bororo. The notch is worthy of notice. 

 Two pegs of hard palm wood driven into the border of the nock prevent 

 the reed from being split and rendered useless by the discharging of the 

 arrow. This practice was found already in the Mauhe feathering (PI. 

 LIX, fig. 13), wherein a notched wooden nock is driven into the end of the 

 arrow, a technique distributed throughout the entire northeastern region 

 of South America and having its origin in Guiana. A more extended 

 a'ccount will be given in the projected work. The technique employed 

 by the Guato in the manufacturing of the notch differing from the cus- 

 tomary method allows the belief that they discovered it independently 

 of the northern nock technique. Outside of a few tribes neighboring 

 to the Guato the nock pegs are nowhere found. 



From the Guana, the last people here to be considered, there is in the 

 Natterer collection only one long harpoon arrow with the label " Guana, 

 Presidio Albuquerque and Miranda on both banks of the Paraguay, 

 Mato-Grosso and Bolivia." It is absolutely of the Guato type. The 

 shaft is of Uba reed; the foreshaft is fastened on by means of Cipo, and 

 the long feather or shaftment terminates in nock pegs, only there is 

 upon the smooth foreshaft of redwood, most commonly used in the 

 Gran Chaco, an iron point set with bark pointing backward. Through 

 this similarity with the Guato and indirectly with the Bororo arrow the 

 story (von den Steinen, op. cit., p. 379) of the coming of the Guana from 

 the north out of the Arinos region gains probability. Dobrizhoffer, 

 who traveled from the Chaco westward from Albuquerque, alleged that 

 they differed from the Chaco people and that they did not use the horse. 

 Xatterer and Castelnau found them in the Presidio Albuquerque and 

 Miranda, in three hordes, the Guana proper, the Terenos, and the Lai- 

 auos. While also the use of the horse is not mentioned anions the 



