Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 249
INDIAN NOTES and have similar woven cane-covered handles, but are for more specialized use. Instead of a blunt round end, the club has a flat triangular wooden blade pointed at the end with sharp sides and stained with urucii. It is used, in the manner of a great ax, for decapitation. Toy canoes… … Fig. ioo. — Toy canoes of the Caraja. (Length, 19 in. and 2.6 in.) burnt-out logs. They are decorated with designs colored with a black stain from the genepapa fruit and the urucii. Paddles (fig. 98) are of regulation length, but some have unusually wide blades often decorated in red and black…
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