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Coati (tlie Nasua coatimundi). 
Jumpari (Devils), 
Ipeca (Ducks). 
Papunauas, the name of a river, a tributary of the 
Guaviare, but which has its sources close to the Isamia. 
These tribes are much alike in all their customs, dif- 
fering only in their languages ; as a whole however they 
offer remarkable points of difference from those of the 
river Uaupes. 
In stature and appearance they are very similar, but 
they have rather more beard, and do not pull out the 
hair of the body and face, and they cut the hair of their 
head with a knife, or, wanting that, with a hard sharp 
grass. Thus, the absence of the long queue of hair forms 
a striking characteristic difference in their appearance. 
In their dress they differ in the women always wear- 
ing a small tanga of tururi, instead of going perfectly 
naked, as among the Uaupes ; they also wear more neck- 
laces and bracelets, and the men fewer, and the latter do 
not make use of so many feather-ornaments and decora- 
tions in their festivals. 
Each family has a separate house, which is small, of a 
square shape, and possesses both a door and windows; and 
the houses are collected together in little scattered vil- 
lages. The Isanna Indians make the small flat baskets 
like the Uaupes, but not the stools, nor the aturas, neither 
have they the white cylindrical stone which the others 
so much esteem. They marry one, two, or three wives, 
and prefer relations, marrying with cousins, uncles with 
nieces, and nephews with aunts, so that in a village all 
are connected. The men are more warlike and morose 
