The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

us features have been perfectly pre- |
served, The eyes having been filled |
with rubber or gum and pieces q I
"hlte bone inserted therein To repre- +
sent the whites. The mouth is closed +
with black gum OF rubber
me director Of the museum ,ll~ No /
that these savages are fast dying out /
| ana that many OF the tribes now III
existence are becoming civilized. Dur
| ing my st2y IN the museum some II
lh" civilized Indians came IN Th..
We're dressed in blue calico. and s.
| Iirs' | Thought this might be i Uniform
and that they might belong u one or
the institutions OF the goNernmert 4
| was told they 2ame from one of IN.
schools which Brazil has established
Tor the education OF tn. red face
Returning to the Mundurucu~. th..y
nave som" curious customs. ThrX tar
too, and II man is not ready for Ma
mage until Ae has had n good coat 81
that kind \ widow l. supposed r,
marry her brcther-in-ia They m4he
a pFetenSe Of carrying of thcir brid.--
by force. They have their medicine
and witch dCltOrs. and Bate~ 81 IS th...
tali SlckneSses which they cannot az
derstand they believe "a he caused ~
a worm in the part affected The
witch doctor prelends to take oul dis
worm. To do this he blows III the
place where the pain is first fl}iI-
his mouth with the smoke OF Il large
cigar. He then sucks the place. and
} after a time is able II pull the worm
from his mouth ana show IL Mr.
EateS waS able 10 set possession ut
: one Of these worms thus taken ont
: He found i TO De the white root Il
an air plant.
2 Il, talking about the Indians .,nd
; looking over the relics. came across
lNt, i,,, i
= there. 1t is said that there are still
g cannihals far Up the Amazon valley
T ana that some OF the tribes are even
L now eating their old and intiTm mem
bers. Net long ago I.2nge, a traveller
published q. story Of his life among tht
MaseronlAs. He says these Indians
. tap their enemies in pits and ga
them. He declares they arc ford Q,
q human lleoh, and that among then
i the greatest OF deIcarieS are tn.
d palms OF the hands and the soles o
i The feet properiI fried in the fat 9
/ tie tapir In the past the MundurE
IS Gus fauened their prisoners heTar
le eating them, giving them TO thei
wives 'nring the time they RENAME,
in captivity.
a. The Brazilian government IS nO'
le doing what it can to convert the civ
,e iliZed Indians, although this move
Os ment has been very late in its orgal
rs ization. There is now an Indian bl
10 reau and in 1910 the President
Of the republic signed q decree creatir
IS. the present service for the prOtectiC
On Of the Indians. Formerly, instead
a | the word 'prOtection" was the wol
as 'ca techisms," and the work amor
to the Indians was almost a]togeth
re that of the church. Indeed, the Cat
m olic Church has done a great deal I
re the Red Men Of Brazil. When tn
lit country was first settled the India
he were enslaved. They were most br
ed tally treated and one Of the prizes
tly said that within thirty years, this "
,ot about 1915, that 100000 Indians II;
le died Of sickness or succumbed 70 u
he brutalitieS of the white men. In t
ne eighteenth century Pope Benedict \
a issued a bull communicating a
lat one who enslaved the Red Men, but
to was long after this before slavery
he the Indians was abolished in Bra2
le- The church has missions scatter
he over the country. The Franciscan S
ters have a station at Itan nacury
Minas Geraes, where they have 2
,oa Indians. The nuns are teaching t
For Indian girls spinning, weaving a
na | flower making. In Matte Crosse I
ch Salesian Fathers have a number
ots mission stations and in Minas the I
vas puchins are working.
NO According to the present plans
,so the government the Indian tcrrltc
va has been divided into ten distri
;ch each in charge Of an inspector "
ver reports annually upon their conditi
he to the director general. 1t is propcs
nc to settle the Indians in their own d
ith tricts and to give them the same {
nd vantageS as the immigrants, WITH
Of exception that they will not be
,ev lowed to dispose Of their allotiner
ars The government intends to prese'
o+h the tribal customs and Internal
ganizatiOns OF the tribes as far
a-a possible, and to use the CHIEFS
The bringing aoout tiiVil l1io, ~ ~, ~ !,
by "oTus - eAp1e-o 'l,ao ~ " "
,ut sible, while the government prcte
tho them from robbery on the pa
The their fellows s yell as on the pal
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