Among the Indians of Guiana, Being Sketches Chiefly Anthropologic from the Interior of British GuianaDover Publications, 1967 - 445 sider |
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Side 168
... Warraus are timid people , despised by other Indians , and , apparently , with but a poor opinion of themselves . Except in the rare cases in which they have been partly civi- lised , their personal habits are , as is rarely the case ...
... Warraus are timid people , despised by other Indians , and , apparently , with but a poor opinion of themselves . Except in the rare cases in which they have been partly civi- lised , their personal habits are , as is rarely the case ...
Side 169
... Warraus are of the coast . Another respect in which they differ from the other tribes of Guiana is , that they alone eat much of the cassava , which forms the chief vegetable food of all the tribes , in the form , not of bread or cakes ...
... Warraus are of the coast . Another respect in which they differ from the other tribes of Guiana is , that they alone eat much of the cassava , which forms the chief vegetable food of all the tribes , in the form , not of bread or cakes ...
Side 378
... Warraus of the origin of the first Carib , and fully accounts for the enmity between the Warrau and Carib tribes . It also incidentally illustrates the Indian way of thinking of inanimate objects , such as stumps of trees , as living ...
... Warraus of the origin of the first Carib , and fully accounts for the enmity between the Warrau and Carib tribes . It also incidentally illustrates the Indian way of thinking of inanimate objects , such as stumps of trees , as living ...
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abundant Ackawoi æta animals appearance Arawaks Arecunas arrows banks Bartica beautiful belief birds blow-pipe body branch Brazilian British Guiana canoe cassava cataract civilised Clothbound colour Corentyn river cotton curious edge English engravings Essequibo European fact fall feathers feet fibre figures fire fish flowers forest habit hammocks hunting illustrations Index Indians Indians of Guiana insects jaguar Kaieteur Kaieteur fall kenaima kind language large number latter leaves LISTEN & LEARN live Macusis Mauritia flexuosa mounds natural night occasionally occur once ornaments paiwari palm Paperbound passed peaiman peculiar plants plates poison Pomeroon river Potaro Potaro river probably queyu rare Richard Schomburgk river Robert Schomburgk rock rock-engravings Roraima round savannah Schomburgk seems seen settlement shape side skin sometimes species spirit stems stick stone string tapir traveller trees tropical True Caribs trunk Wapiana Warraus whole women wood