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No. 25. — Quiver of arrows, or darts, poisoned with wourali. 
The quiver is made of strips of bamboo plaited, coated with wax, 
and then covered with a piece of the hide of a tapir or peccari. 
In shape the quiver resembles a dice-box. Round the middle 
there is fastened a loop large enough to admit the arm and 
shoulder, from which it hangs when used. To the rim is tied a 
little bunch of silk grass, and half of the jaw-bone of the fish 
called pirai," with which the Indian scrapes the point of his 
arrow. Before the arrows are put into the quiver they are 
linked together by two strings of cotton, one string at each end, 
and are then folded round a stick, which is nearly the length of 
the quiver. These arrows are used with a blow-tube, through 
which, by a sudden expiration of the breath, they can be pro- 
jected about 100 yards with great accuracy of aim. They are 
certain death to any animal struck. 
Trophy. R 8. 
No. I is a blow-tube from British Guiana, used for shooting 
poisoned arrows ; this blow-tube is covered with plaited bamboo. 
Brazil. 
A 52. 
No. 9 (S and D 528) is a plummet-like stone object, from 
Brazil ; it formed part of the Squier and Davis Collection, and 
Dr. Davis suggests, in a manuscript catalogue sent with the 
specimens, that it has been used as a net-sinker. It appears 
highly improbable that an object so highly finished as No. 9 
should have been used as a net-sinker. 
Similar stone plummets may be seen in Case A 48, Nos. 21 
and 22, from Ohio. In Case D 19, upon Tablet 10, are other 
plummets of shell, from a shell-mound in Florida. 
Peru. 
A 52. 
Nos. 10 to 1 9 are various objects from Peru, most of which 
are of no great antiquity. No. 10 (S and D 37) is a spindle 
with the stone spindle-whorl still attached to it, and having 
some of the spun alpaca wool around the stick. No. 1 1 (S 
and D 38) is a stone spindle-whorl {?). Nos. 10 and 11 were 
found in graves, in Peru. No. 12 (S and D 571) is described 
