Show 0 ru re vilio want to study primitive man in his s native nath e surroundings gs are respectfully referred to the of southern ecuador these savages have hitherto been n to civilization certainly they bas haie e not been contaminated by w the whites man they appear to b have ave virtues and vices all their own in fact they appear to be sul generis since they have been isolated and have developed along a line particularly their own the are devil worshipers among other things believing in neither a heaven nor a hell they worship warship a sort ot of demon aiho ho appears to the medicine men han they drink a vegetable concoction unknown to whites confirmed bigamists biga mists the braves are jealous of all their wives and punish unfaithfulness mercilessly there Js Is no institution of marriage they have no ceremonies connected with the changing seasons in hunting and fic fishing bIng the methods of the johnros differ from those of all other indians known the dibaro indians were discovered by an expedition into the jungle of southern ecuador undertaken by harold E anthony and george K M cherree for the american museum of natural history new york tork for the purpose of obtaining rare specimens of birds find and mammals mr anthony who Is assistant of mammals at the museum told of his nine months stay and many thrilling experiences among amoas this primitive prim I 1 tire people e the are nit r the first tribe of indians I 1 have met said sir mr anthony that do not believe in a benign being the people have no DO hereafter to look forward to and no sin sins to look hach back upon they are happy none the less and not bad if you treat them civilly naturally superstitious they worship nor ship or rather enter cater to a sort of devil whom only a 0 few medicine men are privileged to see the medicine men on occasions drink a terrible concoction unknown to whites even since the days of home brew this makes them beastly drunk and in their hallucinations they claim they see this his devil of whom they inquire what luck they will have on their hunting expeditions since the expeditions are always for the taking of the wives of other tribes and incidentally ci killing their lius banns bands the devil Is invariably ready kofal lo 10 fall in line with the plans of the braves when the orgy Is over the hunt bunt begins find and does not end until several heads are taken or lost one of our party drank a tiny bit of the concoction and almost immediately claimed he be was seeing things when he got out of the trance he said bald he be was uns not surprised that the men urged on by this strangely influential demon became wild of course only the medicine men are permitted to commune with oe he devil but such Is their invariable reaction that they make their followers believe in the power of the devil even though the latter have not taken a drop of the stuff themselves it Is not surprising that the medicine men have such an influence over the savages ecuador abounds in strange trees with whose sap these indians indiana have experimented from generation to gener generation atlon even the shrubs and floers have drug properties of which modern medicine has as yet small knowledge but the medicine men seem to have made a specialty of the most bitte of ft the herbs and the most flery fiery of tile saps raps tor for their heir purposes they use a mixture the secret of which thea alone know which when hen rubbed on ones body Is supposed to keep awny away the evil spirits in this manner they control the superstitious I baros and there Is not it a trib tribesman esmau who does riot not believe implicitly in the power of these leaders of theirs resides the devil worshiping con coccio ns and the mixture designed to keel away the evil spirits there ore are saps used for their purely medicinal properties pro perlie among these Is a sort of 0 quinine which Is used us its a cure all and a medicine designed to preserve youth or at least encourage longevity aw S A mans ail luence among the Is measured by the number dumber of wives he be can capture tor for himself because each warrior must defend his household against the jealousy of others in his tribe and because he has faithfulness the women nomen to in most cases seem to be happy enough with their lot and submit to their lord and masters will but some are of 0 a rebellious spirit sanctioned by the rest of the community a terrifically painful punishment Is inflicted on oil the erring wife by her husband the warrior chops at the top of his squaws squads head with a little hatchet until all the hair Is removed ile he Is careful to see however that the hatchet does not penetrate the skull if the woman Is still obdurate the husband pins her to the ground by running a spear through a limb in this position she Is kept for two and three days at a stretch and food and water are brought to her regularly until the period of the punishment terminates if in spite of her suffering the woman Is still alive and unrepentant and refuses to 0 live with her master she Is 19 killed outright these punishments the feel in their crude way are justified for the devil order them to hunt for the women and do they not kill their enemies in a fair fight and do not adopt the children of their enemies ns children not as slaves and provide for them and for their mothers the hunt Is fearfully difficult because of the impenetrable jungle through which the warriors must pass sometimes they tramp along animal trails trail but as often as not they must cut their way through the terrific jungle with a knife yet although a man may already have three wives he be will endure all manner of hardships to obtain another for himself because the medicine man has so ordered thrusting their uthe lithe copper colored bodies among some dense shrubbery the braves poison their arrows with another mysterious vegetable concoction and shoot them from a blow gun into the backs of the unsuspecting savages the forest growth gives them an advantage and when the ili fighting Is over the women and children belonging to the men killed peacefully follow their new masters to their new home the braves carry tile the heads beadi of their victims back la in triumph to their village und and mount them after much molding probably in the presence of its ills new wife the warrior makes the head bend as small as a fists fist with the aid of another of the bunum erable vegetable compounds with which the district seems to abound filling tile the skull with sand and pebbles the jaboro Is ready tor for the great ceremonial dance in celebration of his victory the scalp dance Is probably the only ceremonial dance which this tribe observes only the wen men participate la in it their decorations consist of brightly colored stuffed birds which hang down to their waists n alst and a crown of feathers in the hape chape of a corona on their heads for the rest they are naked and a as they dance around and around holding the shrunken heads which they have hideously painted their new wives and children look on but they do not dare the men were willing even eager to pose for photographs we found but the women and children dared not for tear fear there was a bogey man or something in the lens of the camera they are superstitious enough to think that it if a picture of them Is defaced or torn the same thing will happen to them one of our party who tried hard to obtain the picture of a particularly winsome little girl could not succeed until he had given her a present even then she was unwilling until her father ordered her ber to stand in III front of the camera which she did tremblingly ile de felt indifferent about her attitude before but after she had baa accepted the present he felt she was morally bound to face the stranger there are no sun dances or rain dances as there la Is plenty of botu la ins deed there Is no need tor for these indians to depend upon apon the weather at all in the first place there la Is no room for much planting as it la Is too much trouble to hack down the trees and in the second there Is plenty of hunting bunting and fishing to be done which makes agriculture only a pastime confined to the planting of a little corn and cotton the are very tend fond of catching and eating monkeys the brave need use no arrow or gun it to obtain one of these animals for h he tins hits learned to duplicate the monkeys call exactly certain that its mate or another monkey Is calling lt it the unfortunate little animal jumps out of a some nine tree and Is prom promptly aptly caught by the experienced tribesman most of the mammals we caught nere mere killed by the natives with ith strai strange blow pipes these pipes are 10 to 15 feet long an expert blowing a little ball of hard clay through one can easily kill tits his object at a distance of feet the natives method of fishing Is to poison the stream at intervals with a pulp called barbasco which flog fies the fish but so remarkable Is this pulp that what Is poisonous to the fish Is harmless to man and so the fish are edible birds can be captured alive if they imbibe of a certain potion which puts N them in a without injuring thern |