The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-30

tapering slightly at the neck, and fresh
leaves are thrust in for generating steam.
Slender bits of bamboo broken into shreds
are used for light
1t happened that ar the time the Ameri-
cans reached certain Jivaro settlement
among the Cordineras, a medicine man
was about to be executed because he had
lost four patients by death. The tribal
executoner was i'll himself, and the
doomed man was kept tied to tree until
the executioner should recover The
doomed man bequeathed his raiment to
Mr.. Busby in consideration Of some to-
bacco. Three days later the official exc
cutioner was so well that he appointed
that day for the death of the medicine
man.
The prisoner took his doom philosophic-
ally, and simply said he was glad to be
loosed from his painful bondage to the
tree. He walked quite cheerfully away to
a little knoll, where, in the presence of
the whole assembled community, he bowed
his head and permitted the executioner
to stab him to death.
Il was surprised" continued Mr.. Busby,
"to find what elaborate jewelry these bar
barous people have The Jivaros run to
earrings in theis costumes The earrings
are suspended from bit of cane passed
through the ear They consist of four
long pendants OF beetles wings Of glis-
tening green, gold and purple, strung so
as to form tassel. The brilliant scarlet
and orange feathers of the resplendent
tocan are used for fringe The arrange
ment of color shows remarkably good
taste. The women are not so deliberately
provided with earrings. Their chief orna-
ment is a stick passed through the lower
lip.
One OF the most interesting things I
saw was Jivaros killing monkeys for the
teeth, which they make into necklaces.
1t takes 5000 monkey teeth 10 make a
necklace. Tho savages move along noise
lessly, like snakes in the grass. and when
they see monkey through the foliage
they blow a tiny poisoned arrow at him
through pipe. Poor Mr.. Monkey is hit
almost every time, and in three minutes
he is dead. If the air is calm, it is dan
gerous 10 be within a hundred yards Of
a Jivaro armed with these miniature wea-
pons, for he can blow a poisoned arrow
and kill at that distance
II don't know whether the Jivaros have
written language. They have a very
limited spoken language. Unlike most
South American tribes. they have no re-
ligion. They worship nothing, though
they believe in dreams. When well sup
Piled with chicha- an intoxicating liquor,
they lream OF killing their enemies. The
doctors are their actors, medicine men
and faklrs. The existence OF the doctor is
Ike the butterfiys, pleasant and sunny at
first. Free chicha and conquests in love
affairs are among the perquLsites. When
any one is sick, the family get a great
quantity OF chicha and call in the doctor.
He at once proceeds to decrease the supply
OF liquor. When almost drunk. he sings.
dances and goes through a hideous gamut
OF nominations. Then he looks at the pa
tent and sucks the affected place He
splts out a spider.
% How do you feeI?' he asks.
NO better
He sucks again. and spits out gravel
or a thorn
The same question * repeated, and
each time the doctor brings forth some
thing, a scorpion. lizard or monkeys
tooth, until the patent imagines there IS
soma Improvement. and says 50.
IL the first patient dies the doctor IS
suspected Of being a witch; the second
time he is declared one. and the third time
his own re IS in danger, and even MS
own brother viii assist in killing hul-
Nearly every museum the word over
over has one Of the Jivaro preserved
heads. They are great curiositEez. The
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fare. and keep the heads as ornaments
a. their giTdies How these heads are
preserved IS a mystery. TIE skull f. re-
moved and the skin and flesh treated ztth
extracts from plants. which contract ard
dry them Then the hollow head e auez
wisa hot pebbles and d-sed- The pea5les
are removed. and a strange object t1s see
o. mans hand remains.
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