Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-11-05

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South America, and the petri-
III fed stump OF AG Tree of Life
still stands On its site. DR..
William c. Farabea, curator of the
American section OF the University of
Pennsylvania and leader of the Anna
zon expedition, which sailed from
Philadelphia on March 10, 1913, and
is still forcing its way through hither-
to uneXplored South American regions,
has found both it and several differ
ent tribes Of Indians so isolated, so
remote from the rest of the world that
they are essential primitives living
in their stone age and handing down
from father to son in the way of all
primitives, myths and legends that
have an oddly familiar ring, says the
New York Sun.
These tribes live in the Businesses
of the mountains on the border line
between British Guiana and Brazil,
and their small settlements are about
ten miles apart.
When the expedition set out from
Philadelphia in its own vessel it was
most completely equipped for every
eXigency that might arise in the prose
cution of its project. Later it was
deemed ineXpedient to travel with so
much impedimenta and the load was
lightened that the party might not be
restricted to the water routes
Arriving at Para they proceeded by
commercial craft up the Amazon, its
northern affiuent, the Negro, and from
the Negro into the Branco, arriving
at Boa Vista on October II, 1913.
From thence they travelled indie
pendently by canoes or overland. The
way became exceedingly difficult when
they tried to get through the Urara-
Guerra river, as it wound further up
the mountains, and the explorers
turned back eastward on foot through
British Guiana.
Three New Tribes.
On this trip Doctor Farabee discov-
cred three news tribes-the Porocatos,
the Ajamaras and the Zapacas-who
were primitive men never before visI
tied by twentieth century whites.
Like most Of these primitive In
dians, their bamboo houses are i'm
maculately clean and not unat-
tractive, nor is woman averse to
posing in her home, as may be seen
from the illustration.
Tho Of c4, op h.,
petition was accomplished without
mishap, and late in October they
reached the southern outpost of Brit,
ish Guiana at Melville's ranch, where
they sought the cooperation of the
British magistrate, II. P. c. Melville,
and his able associate, John Ogilvie
Doctor Farabee persuaded Mr.. Ogil.
vie to join the expedition in the ardu.
GUS task it now proposed-an invasion
into the mac-Humac range of noun.
tains which divide Brazil from the
Guianas and which up to that time
never had been penetrated.
AS they advanced deeper into the
wilderness they found tribes who
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ilization. These tribes-the Pari
kutu, Wai-wai, Wai-me, Chikena
Katiawan, Toneyan, Diow, Kumayenas
and Ukukwanas-ar simple people
They are like children, beautiful
children, with love for color and en-
joyment, and they are happy, as only
children can be. They have no metals
or gems of any sort. They hew
everything they use out of solid
granite, and they have few utensils
They grow cassava, grind it between
stones and bake it into a kind OF
! bread. They subsist on fruits and
vegetables and game. They strike
fire by rubbing stones together. They
are, in word, "savages."
Women Fine Creatures.
The women of the tribe are magnif
cent creatures, like shining bronze
statues, with black hair and won
derful eyes, the men are splendid Of
body and keen of mind. They
/ weave a kind of coarse native cloth
and into this they Irvine the feathers
| of the macaw and fashion for them
selves most marvellous cloaks, aprons
headdresses, necklaces and wristlets
in which greens, blues, Colds and scar
lets blend exquisitely and which they
80 model as to make the wearer's per.
son thus adorned resemble the glori.
ously plumaged bird they have raw
aged for material
When 1t is the season of loving and
mating, their springtime, they adorr
their bodies and dance-the Maxixe
1t is really the Make, and 1t is called
by them the masheka or peanut vine
dance. This which is rite amont
all Indian Tibes in this corner of thu
globe, was picked up by some Brazil
Sans and taken down to Rio Janeiro
where its teachers developed II into
crude and unlovely dance, largely sus
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