The Yanamomo Indians of the central Amazon have been the focus of Napoleon Chagnon's entire Anthropological career.
From charting their language linguistically to recording customs-traditions-folklore, etc.
In the course of living with the Yanomomo he discovered
three interesting points.
1. When a disagreement occurs between warriors,the offended warrior is allowed to clobber the offender over the head with a large wooden pole. Then the other man, provided still conscious, gets to whack him back. This continues until one is knocked unconscious... makes sense to me!:lol
2. When a wife offends her husband he has many options from shooting her in the rump with an arrow to pulling one of her pierced earing off... ouch!:lol
3. But this is the neatest... they shave the bark of the Hisasi Tree(indigenous to the region) and grind the bark up into a fine powder. This is inserted into a long blow-gun type tube. One man takes the end of this three foot long tube, inserting into a nostril while pinching the other nostril off.
His partner then blows the Hisasi Powder threw the tube and into the nasal passage of his buddy. Sometimes, not often, the pressure of the "blow" ruptures the sinus cavity but usually just green mucous emanates from the blown out nostril... then you hallucinate for about three to five hours, just curious, has anybody tried this?:rollin
From charting their language linguistically to recording customs-traditions-folklore, etc.
In the course of living with the Yanomomo he discovered
three interesting points.
1. When a disagreement occurs between warriors,the offended warrior is allowed to clobber the offender over the head with a large wooden pole. Then the other man, provided still conscious, gets to whack him back. This continues until one is knocked unconscious... makes sense to me!:lol
2. When a wife offends her husband he has many options from shooting her in the rump with an arrow to pulling one of her pierced earing off... ouch!:lol
3. But this is the neatest... they shave the bark of the Hisasi Tree(indigenous to the region) and grind the bark up into a fine powder. This is inserted into a long blow-gun type tube. One man takes the end of this three foot long tube, inserting into a nostril while pinching the other nostril off.
His partner then blows the Hisasi Powder threw the tube and into the nasal passage of his buddy. Sometimes, not often, the pressure of the "blow" ruptures the sinus cavity but usually just green mucous emanates from the blown out nostril... then you hallucinate for about three to five hours, just curious, has anybody tried this?:rollin
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