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WARRAW INDIAN BUCKS PLAYING THEIR SHIELD GAME
| The Warraws are a numerically small tribe settled near the mouth of the Barima river in the north of British Guiana. They keep apart from the white population and from the negroes of the woods, descendents of slaves who escaped from the plantations and took to wild life in the forests of the interior |
TAKING THE COUNT: DEFEATED BUT NOT DISGRACED
| A favourite amusement of the Warraw Indians is the shield game. Planting their plumed and stoutly woven war shields face to face upright on the ground two warriors take firm stand behind them and strive to push each other down. The first and last stages of the contest are shown on this page |