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Snug as bugs in the matted jungle of Brazil's Matto Grosso, a state twice as big as Texas with a population little more than that of Houston, lives an Indian tribe called the Yawalapiti. Last summer the Yawalapiti had a colossal surprise, concerning which Vincent M. Petrullo of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, anthropologist of last year's Matto Grosso Expedition (TIME, Dec. 21 et ante) last week issued a monograph...
...Vincent Petrullo and Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson, son of the founder of Victor Talking Machine Co., were in the airplane. They saw the amazing red men below snatch their spears and bows & arrows, and form into fighting squads of six. The Yawalapiti were going to battle the huge creature circling down upon them. The women ran into the jungle, ripping off their uluri (genital charms) as sacrifice to the demon. But the village site was too small for the plane to land. Anthropologist Petrullo & Victrola-Hein Johnson dropped a sack full of good-will offerings upon the village, flew back...
...over their villages were not evil. They would return. Each morning the Yawalapiti women prepared manioc cakes and beverage and the entire tribe turned their faces to the south praying that the return would be soon. It occurred after seven weeks of prayer. From a jungle stream paddled Vincent Petrullo, his guides shouting that they wanted welcome. The Yawalapiti chief headman, wearing a diadem of jaguar hide, greeted him skeptically. When explanations were over, every one laughed loudly about the Great Gods. The women formed in a line, with arms linked and the palms of hands held against each other...
Here was a precious situation for An-thropology?an utterly indigenous, primitive people who had developed language, religion and customs from anciently lost seeds ? which Anthropologist Petrullo with pencil and camera zealously documented. From the pristine Yawalapiti and their neighbors may be learned much about
...zoos, were Alexander Siemel, chief animal man, who has recovered from an alligator bite (TIME, April 13) ; Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff, artist and general director; Floyd Crosby, first camera man, now busi ness manager, and his wife (only woman with the party) ; James T. Rehn, zoologist ; Vincent Petrullo. ethnologist ; Arthur Rossi, cameraman; Ainslee Davis, sound engineer; Uncle George Rawls. famed Florida cracker guide: and the dogs. The dogs, typical U. S. hunters, have contributed largely to the expedition's game catch. Most are foxhounds. Others are foxhound-bloodhound crosses. Two are fox terriers. Value of the hounds against jungle beasts...
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