Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 and 1824 - with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for (14563558209)

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Title: Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history

Year: 1885 (1880s)

Authors: Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865 Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889

Subjects: Zoology -- Guyana Zoology -- South America Guyana -- Description and travel South America -- Description and travel Brazil -- Description and travel

Publisher: London : Macmillan

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and jerking its head about in a most ludicrous fashion. Teibes, Native,—The five great tribes are given on p. 237.Taking them in their order, the Waraws, or Guaraons, asHumboldt calls them, are more exclusively aquatic than theothers, one great division of them living wholly in lakedwellings built in the stems of the ita or moriche palm. See ^ta. They are also the best canoe makers, and can carvecanoes out of tree trunks, some of which are able to canyvery large numbers of men. They sell these canoes to othertribes. The Arowacks are taller and fairer than the other tribes,averaging from 5 ft. 4 in. to 5 ft. 6 in. in height, and the mixedprogeny of Arowack and European is said to be remaj-kable 478 EXPLANATORY INDEX. foi its beauty and intellect. The Acoways wear scarcelyany clothing, and indeed, when no white men are near, donot trouble themselves about clothes at all. They wear theircoarse black hair very long, and are accustomed to carry apiece of wood in the cartilage of the nose

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J ^M 3 ^^ REAL AND IDEAL. The Caribs are also nude, and wear ornaments in theirunder lips. Lastly, come the Macoushies, who are the bestwourali makers, and sell it to other tribes. In the accompanying illustration I have brought togetherthree figures, in order to show the difference between theEuropean and Guianan types of the human frame. ThePainters Ideal is copied from an imaginative drawingof a young Indian girl, as depicted by a well-known artist.The model is clearly of an English type, with the abundant EXPLANATORY INDEX. 479 wavy liair, sloping shoulders, ample brow, full eyes, andstraight delicate nose. Substitute an English archery dressfor the skin robe, and a bow for the spear, and there is ahandsome English girl at an archery meeting. The Sculptors Ideal of the same subject is wholly Greek.Substitute a crescent diadem for the plumed circlet, a lightclassical chiton for the feather apron, and there is Diana. How different is the real figure of the Guianan type of femalebeau

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