Show INDIANS row the boorn ot trib get their name in an interesting article on the aborigines of brazil in the current south em alie method of naming boys Is thus described the ceremony 0 initiation into the and privileges of citizenship in the bohiw tribe ie interesting the lit tie bronze body of the baby boy 1 more or less daubed with gum or pitch and plated with white feathers then early in the morning before the rising ef the sun the finlly and friends and the priest or conjurer betake them selves to an eminence near the village and a the sun the power majestically upward from behind the eastern wilderness the con jurer borea the lower lip of the en warrior with an instrument made especially for the occasion and fully decorated with brilliant leathers and at the same time whispers cladu du humming bird or the name of some other animal or object that the child Is to bear Pla dudu repeat the family and friends in turn and thus a favorite name becomes the name of the little one they re very jealous of their names and will not make them known to aliens in order to become a cillien of the tribe a person of alien birth would have to reside with it for some time and be initiated much as the child I 1 |