Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-06-23

round their bodies, using up ewO OIL
three hundred feet of the string in one
girdle. There are no marriages among
them. The women live together in one
part of the village, and the men in an.
other. Each man is at liberty every
morning to select any woman he wants
for the day, but the chief has always the
first choice The weapons of war con-
sist of the Indian club, and a bow and
arrow. The warriors are unerring in
their aim. The barb of the arrow is
made of a curved bone taken from a
monkey. Both of its points are ex-
posed, so that when it is driven into
the flesh it is impossible to draw
it out without greatly increasing the
wound. Much time is spent in prepar-
ing for war. When they make an at
tack on the enemy they at once seize
the wounded and dead of their foe, and
speed away with them. AT proper
distance they cut the head off of each
body close To the shoulders, rake ont the
brains and all the flesh they can, and
then hasten back to their own village to
begin the work of preservation before
the flesh begins to mortify. The teeth
of the heads are all pulled out for neck
laces. The eyes are plucked out, and
then the heads are smoked over fire
made of carrocopowpow root, which has
the property of making dead flesh crum-
BILE. 1t was very difficult for me to
learn the name of the root, and was
wholly unable to find the tree from which
il was taken. l managed to steal one
piece of it from the hut where it was
concealed. As the smoke of the root
acts ON the flesh it shrinks the skin to
the bone, so that the skin of the neck
draws over the base of the head like the
head of drum. The hole that remains
in the center is left open to receive the
ebony stick, on which Zach warrior car
ries head. When the hair is too long
it is cut off for the decoration of the
bows. The eyes are filled with this
black wax, in which these parallel fish
bones are placed, in imitation of the
natural eye. These heads are used to
decorate the huts of the village. They
last lifetime, and as they accumulate
they are buried. They are priced very
little after their annual feast, which lasts
two or three days, and as l happened
there then l was able to buy these for
few trinkets.
Each one of the CHASTITY trophies, over
which the young naturalist grew so en-
had coil of Irvine fastened
into each ear, and from some of these
dangled long strips of beautiful feathers,
golden, crimson, and purple, from the
plumage of the birds of the Brazilian
forest. The ears, MIR. Morris explained,
were pierced in youth, and the Irvine
run in and out of the holes and wrap
ped in cells to receive the decorations |
The head of a chief of the Para-be-te-te |
tribe had around its forehead beauti-
ful head-dress of golden feathers from
The macaw, which he had worn as
IN old man of about sixty years, was
filed with red paint, which on being re-
moved in some places revealed the gray |
hair, which it had been used to hide A |
head of one savage was not wholly |
cured. The marks of the club which |
caused his death are yet on the back of |
he head. There are also in the col |
ection the heads of two or three wom-
IN, but it would puzzle a novice to dis
inguish them from the others. A num-
Der of naturalists have visited Mr.. Nor
is since his arrival, and several persons
nave offered him large sums for one of
lis heads, but he has refused them. He
Expects TO carry them to his home in
indianapolis, and then to return to South
america for further explorations. He
,oes out under the patronage of no one
'ut his father, and has not visited Rio
aneiro for any Government favors.
A Simpleton. having had Occasion