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PEACEFUL CHIEFS OF THE ONCE WARLIKE TRIBES OF DARIEN |
PERIPATETIC WICKER-WORK |
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| Indians of the Darien — the term vaguely applied to the eastern end of the Isthmus of Panama — are descendants of the Carib race that had its cradle in the heart of South America. Formerly a ferocious and cannibal people, who fiercely resisted the Spanish invasion, they now like peacefully enough and have interbred freely with the immigrant black and white peoples on the coast | Oddly suggestive of a perambulating wicker-built pagoda, the canastera, or basket-seller, hawks her wares in Mexican city streets, baskets of all shapes and sizes cumbering her limbs, and a steeple of hats towering from her head |