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Titre : Annual report of the Bureau of American ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian institution
Auteur : Bureau of American ethnology (Washington, D.C.). Auteur du texte
Éditeur : Government printing office (Washington)
Date d'édition : 1916
Contributeur : Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902). Directeur de publication
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Langue : anglais
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Description : 1916
Description : 1916 (N38)-1917.
Description : Note : Index.
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hook (h) clamped over its extremity. It is thus made to lie horizontally with, and about one-half an inch from, the surface of the soil. Looped on to this bar is one end of the noose, which is successively looped through itself, fastened by a clove hitch on to the extremity of the spring, and passed back again from outside under the bar, where it is fixed in place by means of a cylindrically eut piece of cassava jammed tightly up against the knot into the interspace between the bar and thé surface of the ground. Except immediately in front of the noose, thé whole is surrounded with a miniature fence or inclosure (c, e), formed of a broad itiriti or other leaf, set up edgewise between a varying number of light wooden slips. [For diagrammatic purposes, a portion of this inclosure is represented as transparent in the illustration.] As a result of this arrangement to get at the cassava the rat bas to pass through the noose, in which, as soon as he starts digging up and removing the bait, and so frees the knot, he gets hoisted and caught (WEB, iv).
173. The Waccawai (Akawai) and Carib eat the flesh of the threetoed sloth, which they describe as fat and well flavored (ScE, 168). The Waiwai and Parikuta, also eat it (JO).
17é. As to the tapir or bush cow, thé Achagua watch for these animais at the river banks and imitate their caR. As they approach they shoot them with poisoned arrows (G, i, 264). On the Rupununi Schomburgk also speaks of shooting tapir with thé poisoned arrow (ScO, 110). Elsewhere they may be snared or shot with the arrow trap. Schomburgk also describes how, on the Cotinga, when they were cleaning one of these beasts, thé [Makusi] Indians carefully collected the blood, mixed with it small pieces of finely eut meat, and stuned it into the intestine, which they did not cook, but only smoked (SR,n,169).
175. The water haas (~~oc~~)*MS capybara) is apparently the creature mentioned by Depons in the following terms: Another animal which abounds in the Oroonoko (Orinoco) and the neighboring rivers is termed by the Carib èapigua, by the Indians chiquire, and by the Spaniards guardatinajas. Its muzzle resembles that of a sheep, its skin is red, and its tail so short as scarcely to be perceptible. These animais are eaten by the inhabitants on fast days from the idea that they partake more of the nature of nsh than of land animais. They always swim in shoals, and occasionally raise their heads above water to respire. They feed upon the herbs which grow on the banks of the lakes and rivers, and are regarded by the Indians as a delicious morsel. They consequently kill them in considerable numbers by means of their arrows (FD, 151). An interesting note on the preparation of the flesh of this creature for food cornes from the Upper Rupununi. Thé men took it to the beach, and, re-