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BALLING COTTON IN A SETTLEMENT OF VENEZUELAN ABORIGINES
| The settlements of the Waiomgomo Indians, scattered about the vast dense forests of Guayana, are sometimes little more than a collection of miserable huts consisting chiefly of thatched roofs on supports, but providing, nevertheless, shelters for numbers of primitive creatures to whom they stand for home. Hand-made hammocks, earthenware pots, and calabashes lie promiscuously about the earth floor |
MAKING ARROWS: PRIMITIVE PASTIME OF A PRIMITIVE PEOPLE
| The Waiomgomo Indians, a branch of the Caribs, still inhabit their original haunts around the river Caura. In the more fertile regions they cultivate miniature plantations, while in some of the higher forest land the collecting of the odoriferous tonka bean constitutes their chief industry. They generally shun civilization, caring nothing for its comforts and conveniences |