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HALL 17 
PARAGUAY. 
This hall contains the collections of Dr. E. Hassler. The 
tribes represented in the collection inhabit the Gran Chaco. The 
most northern tribes inhabit Brazilian territory, while the more 
southern ones live in Argentine Republic. The principal tribes 
represented are the Tobas, Lenguas, Chamacoccos, Guaranis, 
Cuximosso, Panas, Paitas, and Omiris. The collection is remark- 
able because it represents tribes which have had hardly any con- 
tact with civilization. The collection contains a vast amount of 
beautiful feather work, and a number of most interesting stone 
weapons. Case 13 contains a collection made by Lieutenant D. 
U. Bertollette. 
Case 1. — Bows and arrows, 
(jase 2.— Feather pendants, head ornaments, feather belts, 
deer’s hoofs necklaces; reed and feather necklaces. 
Case 3. — Bags, hammocks, nets and ropes. 
Case 4.— Bows with double strings for shooting baked clay 
balls; bows and arrows for war and hunting. 
Cases 5 and 6 .— Stone axes ornamented with feathers, 
wooden clubs, iron-tipped lances, wooden lances, wooden spades 
for digging roots, pottery. 
Case 7. — Feather ornaments. 
Case 8 .— Shell necklaces and ear-rings, bead-work, woolen 
belts, grass fans and hats, and feather ornaments. 
Case 9. — Feather ornaments. 
Case 10.— Ornaments of shells and feathers; gourds, amu- 
lets, stone axes, flutes, pipes and fire drill. 
Case 11. — Feather pendants 
Case 12.— Bone and teeth necklaces, necklaces and pend- 
ants of deer’s hoofs, necklaces of beetle heads, bones and snake 
rattles, whistles and combs. 
Case 13. — Feather ornaments. 
Case 14.— Feather ornaments, gourds, bows and arrows and 
necklaces 
