Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo07amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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TUKANO COLLECTION 109 on account of the numerous waterfalls and rapids of the rivers, which are the only highways, that many of the inhabitants had never seen a white man before jNIr. Schmidt's arrival, and their mode of life and customs have probably changed but little since the beginning of the historic period in South America. The primitive condition of the Tukano Indians gives particular value to this collection of their household utensils, implements of war and the chase, clothing, ceremonial objects and ornaments, since these
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SKETCH MAP OF NORTHWESTERN SOUTH AMERICA The region occupied by the Tukano Indians is along the Caiary-Uaupes River near the cross ( + ) objects throw light on some pages, at least, of the history of the aborigines before the advent of white men. By far the most striking specimens in the collection are the pieces of feather-work, of which there are about three hundred, consisting of a great variety of head-dresses, waist-bands, ornaments for the legs and arms and plumes to be carried in the hand. These ornaments are never w'orn except on ceremonial occasions, and then only by the men, the women wearing little clothing and but few ornaments. The feathers used in making these objects are largely from the red and blue macaw, various members of the parrot family, and a species of the heron. In lookino; at this collection of feather-work one is astonished

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