AllAWAK i'AMlLY DIVISIONS. 
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occasion. Tlie man who is not seen to take a conspicuous part at the 
festival, has no claim to drink of the paiwari. When I made enquiries 
from the people as to, the object and motive of the ceremony, they knew 
of none to give me. Tlieir forefathers had huried tlieir dead in this 
fashion, and so they buried theirs in the same way. All my efforts to 
obtain some of these bloodj^soaked whips as well as one of the figures 
were in vain: I ))arely succeeded in liarleriiig some of those that had not 
been used. 
89o. I have already mentioned that the Arawaks dilfer in many 
ways in their manners and customs from remaining trilves. Most dif- 
ferent of all are their tribal divisions, the whole tril»e, like tlie Caribs, 
l)eing divided up into families. According to Hillhouse, who lived 
amongst them for a long time, and who took an Arawak woman to wife, 
the whole tri])e consists of the following families: — Mai-atakayu, 
Wunesido, Korobahady, Eliesuana, Queyurunto, Demaridi. Wurallikady. 
Dakamoknddy, Aramukungu, Nebetitady, Karuafuddi, Baboana, 
Siwedey. P>nkiirid<;iddv, Kan.nhea, Trobalina. Eid)0(|uaddi, Maikoweyu, 
ILiduadat unlia,' AA'akuynddi, Karabanui-y, r>eoi-ybetody, Elibenseltio. 
Warirobaquadi, Arandcritu, Kariwliiti, Eubotaddi.* 
894. The casle oi- genealogy is retained through the mother and with 
the most scrupulous care. Ko member of any one family is allowed to 
marry another of the same. The children of the father who belongs to 
the family of A^'i'urallikady, are according to the rules just mentioned 
not Wurallikady, l»ut, if tlie mother belongs to the family of Dakamo- 
kaddy, are Dakamokaddy, and as such can marry quite properly into the 
Wurallikady, but not into the Dakamokaddy. 
89r». W^itli respect to the lying-in ceremonies, they correspond en- 
tirely with those of the otliei' trilies: the man keeps them np at the same 
time as the wife. 
806. In connection with marriage ceremonies they differ but 
slightly from the others. Supposing the young x\rawak wants to set up 
his oAvn establishment, and provided he has chosen among the daughters 
of his own tribe, he negotiates secretly with the girl's relatives, and 
assures himself beforehand that he will not meet with a refusal. When 
he knows this, he pays a visit to the girl's parents, tells them how poor 
he is, that he has no wife, etc., whereu])on the father with a lot of 
pretty phrases gives his sanction. Tf the bi-ide, on coui])letiou of these 
preliminaries, places some food l)efore the young wooer, she expresses 
her consent: he eats what is put l)efore him and the marriage is conclud- 
ed. In the evening the mother slings the young girl's hammock near 
that of her spouse. If a father is specially anxi<uis for some ]iarticular 
person to be Iiis son-in law he lets his daughter put some food l)efore him 
when he pays a visit, and if he eats it the marriage is concluded : luit if 
he leaves it untouched, the old man knows that the wishes on l)oth sides 
are not in agreement. If the girl is so young that the bridegroom has still 
* Other Arawak families are known and recordod. There is a stroni/ suspicion thac 
certain of the other tribes were similarly divided into families, e,//. Warrans on the Monika 
group themselves according to the rivers in tlie Orinoco basin from which they believe 
they originally came. {t]d.) 
