Musical Instruments.
- 28. A small drum.
- 29. Eight large trumpets, the Juruparí music.
- 30. Numerous fifes and flutes of reeds.
- 31. Fifes made of deer-bones.
- 31a. Whistle of a deer's skull.
- 32. Vibrating instruments of tortise and turtle shells.
Ornaments, Dress, and Miscellaneous.
- 33. About twenty distinct articles, forming the feather headdress.
- 34. Combs of palm-wood, ornamented with feathers. ([Plate VII.] a.)
- 35. Necklaces of seeds and beads.
- 36. Bored cylindrical quartz-stone.
- 37. Copper earrings, and wooden plugs for the ears.
- 38. Armlet of feathers, beads, seeds, etc.
- 39. Girdle of jaguars' teeth.
- 40. Numbers of cords, made of the "coroá" fibre, mixed with the hair of monkeys and jaguars,—making a soft elastic cord used for binding up the hair, and various purposes of ornament.
- 41. Painted aprons, or "tangas," made from the inner bark of a tree.
- 42. Women's bead tangas.
- 43. Rattles and ornaments for the legs.
- 44. Garters strongly knitted of "coroá."
- 45. Packages and carved calabashes, filled with a red pigment called "crajurú."
- 46. Large cloths of prepared bark.
- 47. Very large carved wooden forks for holding cigars. ([Plate VII.] b.)
- 48. Large cigars used at festivals.
- 49. Spathes of the Bussu palm (Manicaria saccifera), used for preserving feather-ornaments, etc.
- 50. Square mats.
- 51. Painted earthen pot, used for holding the "capi" at festivals.
- 52. Small pot of dried peppers.
- 53. Rattles used in dancing, formed of calabashes, carved, and ornamented with small stones inside. ([Plate VII.] c.) (Maracás.)
- 54. Painted dresses of prepared bark (tururí).
- 55. Balls of string, of various materials and degrees of fineness.
- 56. Bottle-shaped baskets, for preserving the edible ants.
- 57. Tinder-boxes of bamboo carved, and filled with tinder from an ant's nest.
- 58. Small canoe hollowed from a tree.
- 59. Paddles used with ditto.
- 60. Triangular tool, used for making the small stools.
- 61. Pestles and mortars, used for pounding peppers and tobacco.
- 62. Bark bag, full of sammaúma, the silk-cotton of a Bombax, used for making blowing-arrows.
- 63. Chest of plaited palm-leaves, used for holding feather-ornaments.
- 64. Stone axes, used before the introduction of iron.
- 65. Clay cylinders, for supporting cooking utensils. ([Plate VI.] c.)[7]
The Indians of the river Isánna are few in comparison with those of the Uaupés, the river not being so large or so productive of fish.
The tribes are named—
- Baníwas, or Manívas (Mandiocca).
- Arikénas.
- Bauatánas.
- Ciuçí (Stars).
- Coatí (the Nasua coatimundi).
- Juruparí (Devils).
- Ipéca (Ducks).
- Papunauás, the name of a river, a tributary of the Guaviáre, but which has its sources close to the Isánna.
These tribes are much alike in all their customs, differing only in their languages; as a whole, however, they offer remarkable points of difference from those of the river Uaupés.
In stature and appearance they are very similar, but they have rather more beard, and do not pull out the hair of the body and face, and they cut the hair of their head with a knife, or, wanting that, with a hard sharp grass. Thus, the absence of the long queue of hair forms a striking characteristic difference in their appearance.
In their dress they differ in the women always wearing a small tanga of turúri, instead of going perfectly naked, as among the Uaupés; they also wear more necklaces and bracelets, and the men fewer, and the latter do not make use of so many feather-ornaments and decorations in their festivals.