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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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Description : 1916
Description : 1916 (N38)-1917.
Description : Note : Index.
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Makusi at Pirara village on the head tributary of the Takutu, Schomburgk describes how the masters of ceremony had in their hands two large pieces of bamboo, the cavities of which were filled with small pebbles, and the outside surrounded with cotton hangings and feathers. They walked at the 'head of the dancing column, stamping at intervals with their bamboos on thé ground, by which a rattling noise was caused, women and men accompanying the same with a monotonous song (ScG, 257). The shak-shak," i. e., shakeshake, of Creoles, Negroes, and civilized Indians is a hollowed-out globular or egg-shaped gourd with a short stick passed through it and containing small pebbles or hard seeds. Thé Arawak call it maraka and are credited by legend (WER, vi, sec. 185) and otherwise (G, i, 155) with having introduced it into thé Guianas, throughout the entire extent of which it is to be met. The gourd is often highly decorated and may have feathers and streamers, etc., attached (pl. 168 A, B). Among the Wapishana and neighboring tribes the handle may be triangular in section and notched along the'edges. A double form of shak-shak has been described by Crévaux from Atures village, a Guahibo settlement: A dumbbell (As~e~e) with hollow balls containing hard seeds. In the Hauyari dance of the Arawak, held at a female's death, the handle of the shak-shak reached a length of S or 6 feet, the extremity of which, prodded into the ground while marching along, causeo. thé gourd to rattle. The ordinary short-handled form of maraka used at the common dances is probably independent of the similar African instrument, a like remark applying to the indigenous magie shell" or calabash of the medicine men (WER, vi, sec. 289), which can usually be distinguished by its comparatively much larger size and various purposely made longitudinal and horizontal slits. These apertures are, of course, not for the insertion of the contained quartz crystals, etc., which are put in at the handle openings previous to the handle. Rattles, as children's toys, are discussed elsewhere (sec. 620).
574. 1 am obliged to employ the term "bells, for want of a better, to describe certain apparatus composed .of hard-shelled seed pods, beetle wing-cases, various animals' hoofs, and other articles, the clinking together of which gives rise to more or less agreeable sounds. They may be attached from the neck, waist, arms, or legs. In the case of seeds, it would appear that the particular plant from which they are dérived has only in one instance been scientifically identified, i. e., the ?'A~e~MT ~M~/o~M. Juss. AU other examples in which seeds are recorded as employed for this purpose only fumish'Us with local names. Eawa seeds can be strung on cotton thread, which may be tied to sticks or hollow cylinders (sec. 576). Thé cerehu or cerewu