HALL 17. 
PARAGUAY. 
This hall contains principally the collection of Dr. E. Hassler. 
The tribes represented inhabit the Gran Chaco. The most north- 
ern members of the group inhabit Brazil and Bolivia, while the 
more southern extend into the Argentine Republic. The princi- 
pal tribes representing are the Tobas, Lenguas, Chamacoccos, 
Guaranis, Cuximosso, Panas, Paitas and Omiris. The collection is 
especially interesting as representing tribes which have had but 
little contact with civilization. The collection contains much 
beautiful feather work, and a number of remarkable stone weap- 
ons. In Case 14 is a collection made by Lieutenant D. U. Bertol- 
lette, with a few articles from the Safford collection. 
Case 1. — Bows and arrows. 
Case 2.— Feather pendants, head ornaments, feather belts, 
deer’s hoof 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 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. 
