Show new erml TRIBES people woodwell Wh on the t latia of brazil L nt york still the great table land of matto grosso in the western part of bra zil is still one af the least known tion s of south america when W C lauss and dr von den steinen penetrated it several years ago and followed the largo xingu river from its headwaters head waters to the boy floated down about one bbous an 1 miles before chef reached the ortho river they did not bare time load the strange and of indian tribes met amid thise dense thy forgets an barren uplands and fir purpose of fui hot re searches among them dr von den steinen returned to file upper xingu last year lie visited the of nine of those tribes and in a recent lecture in aitio de janeiro he gave the interesting results of ili studies billere is arth whose prope have not bad some inkling at the great world beyond them but the primitive of the X agu bad apparently never ser a p of trade go 41 or beard that lieiman betting evicted their little circle of observation obier they 05 no metal implements but fell trees with a t one ancs or clear the ground for their plantations af indian corn cotton Wearing shell ornaments they used harn mers and stone to perforate them they make knirck out ofell ells and tb sharp teeth of a certain fish and with these poor tools they carve their rudely tools and weapons dogs and fowls tire faund in a I 1 artis of the amaru valley eave been visited bi traders tra derd but these xingu tribes have never heard of them neither have they any knowledge of the banana sugar cabie and rice with which natives of the tropical ste ge at rally familar they have not the slightest conception jofs god but they believe they wua live agaba after death their anost im myth relates to the creation of the world which in their view consists wholly odthe head waters of the upper xingo and rivers prom the languages and pottery of all but 0 no of these tribes the explorer derived the idea ahat thoo isolated tire allied to the original stock of the once power ful carias who journeyed from the a auth to the sea ane tribe differ c atso greatly from bil othere that he was unable to its relations to any other people tire almost wholly insulated even frombach fro meach ot herand their ins grages though of the same deliva tion are so dissimilar that tha tribes cannot understand befth other faw people exist today to day who are 00 r i in their ideas and so lwi the social scale as these new faund indiana of south america |