Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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assed by some as Tapuya, butseem to be of a distinct and superior type. The Caribs also appear > i / ^\ ^^^^^Hu^^^^k^ MM^^^T^^^^M ^^ ^^fad^^^ ^^^BS^^i^» ^^t^ ^ ^H Ni .^^^^^^^K^^^^m Fig. 258.—Tiaia of feathers. British C4uiana. to have moved in a northerly direction, probably from theProvince of Matto Grosso, whore Carib tribes (Bakairi) are stillliving. At the time of Columbus they had spread north of theAmazon into Guiana and Venezuela, and nuide numerous conquestsin the Antilles, where some of their descendants are still to l)efound. Physically they rather resemble the Arawak, thoughtaller and more eneigetic. The tribes of modern Venezuela arechiefly Caribs. The Arawak family at the tiiue of the discovery occupied the 278 AMERICA Antilles and tho Bahamas and the northern coast from Colombiato the months of the Amazon. From this position they have beendriven by the Caribs, though they are still numerous in Guiana.They also occupied a great tract in the interior of the continent
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Fig. 259.—Objects from South America. 1. Stone pendant, Uaujies River,Brazil. 2. Tube for taking snuff, Guahibo Indians, Venezuela. 8. Bluntwooden arrow-head for birds, Paraguay. 4 and 5. Ear-ornaments, TocantinsRiver, Brazil. 6 and 7. Stone lip-ornaments, Tocantins River, Brazil. from the Upper Orinoco to the east of Bolivia, where the Moxoare an important tribe. West of the Arawak are numeroussmaller groups, and the ethnology of the whole region east of theAndes as far south as the Gran Chaco is complicated to an extra- SOUTH AMEKICA 279 ordinary degree. Among the more important tribes of thislinguistic family may be mentioned the Guarano or Warrau, theOtomaeo of the Rio Meta, a jirimitive tribe at the mouth of theOrinoco once living in pile-dwellings in the swamps, the Tucansof R. Uaupes, the Jivaro of Eastern Ecuador, the Zaparo imme-diately south of the Jivaro onthe upper Amazon, the Pano (in-cluding the Conibo) of the upperUcayali River, the Chiquito andthe pale-skinned Urucar

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