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ing civilization which lias left its mark upon tliem physically and 
socially. Clothed in cheap European clothes at all stages of decay, 
tliey present an abject appearance, and in the more distant villages 
there is certainly an attempt at clothing witli all, except the little 
children, which is usual among all the tribes, but the veriest rag, oíd 
sack or a pocket handkerchief has to do duty for covering. Poverty 
struck me in my travels among tliem to be the outstanding feature oí 
the Choro ti. 
Linking up as it were the dift'erent specimens of dress and ornament 
seen at various villages it is quite easy to dress tliem in the costume of 
their fathers of a few generations ago. Like the untouched Lengua- 
Mascoy, Suliin, and Towothli of the interior the blanket woven either 
with wool or cotton would be the chief dress of the men, girt round the 
waist with a hide or woven belt, necldaces of shells, bones and seeds, 
and a head-dress and feathers would complete the picture. Speci- 
mens of these are still to be seen, but for the most part bear the mark 
of the eastern Suliin. 
The woinen would be modestly clothed like the interior peoples, 
with a skirt of skins sewn together, reaching froin the waist to the 
ankles, the upper part of the body remaining unclothed but relieved 
with a few necklaces, beads or twisted feathers, and surmounted by 
a neat head-band. Though the present-day dress of the young girls 
is that adopted by the Chiriguano, a kind of sleeveless, waistless gown 
caught at the shoulders with a couple of safety pins, I, nevertholess, 
saw somc of the old-fashioned lionest skirts(much the worso for wear) 
and some of the ornaments. llundreds of bead necklaces, of the par- 
ticular type supplied by our Mission to its workers, and bartered by 
tliem to the Suliin for goats and donkeys, and urucu (the red seeds of 
the Bixci orellana pounded into a calce for facial painting), were to be 
seen adorning the bodies of the youths and maidens. 
Another article of dress still worn by some of the older men is a 
sleeveless sliirt, either made of string or wool. The young people who 
liave been out to work on the various sugar estates or at estancias are 
clothed with shirt, trousers and hat, and the women, as already de- 
scribed, with some kind of cotton material in the form of a gown. 
The older people of botli sexes are content to wrap themselves round 
with a cloth folded skirt-like and fastened at the waist. 
The Choroti aro pleasant but not boistorously morry, rathor in- 
clined to be solemn, not bubbling over with fun and amusement like 
their eastern neighbours. They speak in an affected voice like a 
child’s treble, which rises and falls in musical cadenee during a long 
conversation, and some of their words are clipped as it were witli 
a kind of lisp, a soft purring language that has not the forceful grip 
