The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes
The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes
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No armed escort could protect a medicine-man better than his own reputation suffices to do, for all medidne-men are feared — certes one that was not feared would not be worth the killing — ^and no Indian would be likely to risk the danger < resultant on doing one an injury. I doubt if even a hostile tribe would wittingly put a medicine-man to death, for they fear retaliation on the part of the spirit, which would certainly haimt them, even if it worked no graver ill. The medicine- man's. ^dress, as already mentioned, is largely a matter of personal taste ; something original and striking is usually attempted. The Orahone medidne-man dothes himself in tapir-skin, and the Andoke medicine- man in the illustration opposite p. 73 was wearing a dyed tin-ban when I took his portrait. Any fancy article that comes to hand is utilised to make him different from his fellows. His " properties," which are carried in an ornamented bag of tiger skin, or of beaten bark sewn with fibre string, consist of a rattle— of rather more elaborate design than the ordinary dance rattle — some small magic stones, and a cup made from the shell of a river fish.* The latter resembles a large o}^ter, and the mother-of-pearl inner coating is much used for earrings and ornaments.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
No armed escort could protect a medicine-man better than his own reputation suffices to do, for all medidne-men are feared — certes one that was not feared would not be worth the killing — ^and no Indian would be likely to risk the danger < resultant on doing one an injury. I doubt if even a hostile tribe would wittingly put a medicine-man to death, for they fear retaliation on the part of the spirit, which would certainly haimt them, even if it worked no graver ill. The medicine- man's. ^dress, as already mentioned, is largely a matter of personal taste ; something original and striking is usually attempted. The Orahone medidne-man dothes himself in tapir-skin, and the Andoke medicine- man in the illustration opposite p. 73 was wearing a dyed tin-ban when I took his portrait. Any fancy article that comes to hand is utilised to make him different from his fellows. His " properties," which are carried in an ornamented bag of tiger skin, or of beaten bark sewn with fibre string, consist of a rattle— of rather more elaborate design than the ordinary dance rattle — some small magic stones, and a cup made from the shell of a river fish.* The latter resembles a large o}^ter, and the mother-of-pearl inner coating is much used for earrings and ornaments.
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