KROEBER ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY PAPERS Number 6 BERKELEY, 1952 THE KROEBER ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY PAPERS NU1VIBER 6 The Kroeber Anthropological1 Society Berkeley, California Spring, 1952 THE -KROEB9R -MITEROPOWGICAL SOCIETY-:P ,Ai' Number 6 june 1, 1952` Published by the Kroeber Anthropological Society Arnold R. Pill~ing, Pre si'dent; Dight Wa1l1ace, Vioe-President; Ruth Shelley, Secretary; Albert B. Elsasser, Treasurer; Bernard G. Hoffman, Editor; Harriet Huguenin, Program Chpirmans R 1chk1 K. Eckman, Program Secretary; Marie ag Beccham Suzanne Bescsoc,e,nd Patricia E. Cody, Publio Relations Committee; $yl.ia Broadbent, Gordon Grosscup, Patricia L. Kleinecks (1952), and Donald Lathrap;(31951),. Publications Managers. Address all correspondence to: The .KrQeber Anthropologioal Society,, /oj The 'Department of Anthropology, University of California, , Be rkeley4., California. 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INFORMATION REGARDING SUBSCRIPPTIONS AND BACK NUMBERS Subscriptions to the Kroebe* Anthropologica'l ooiety Papers is by membership in the Society only, at three dollars per year.T Aldtional copies may be ordered at the following prices: Issue Members Non-members No. 1 *: .65 : 1.00 No. 2 1.00 1.50 No. 3 * 1.00 1.50 No. 4 1.00 ; 1.65 No. 5 1.00 1.75 :No. 6 l.00 . 1. 75 iv P REFACE With the publication of this issue, number 6 of its Papers, the Kroeber Anthropological Society commences its third year, of existence. Reviewing the accomplishments of the pasttwo years, the Society wishes to thank the numerous students, professors, oontributor-r, and members who have taken an interest in the problems of the org anization and have aided It' in hours of difficulty, The Society hopes .t; be able to fulfill completely'the expectations of theab friends in its publi._ cations of the future. In this issue the Society is plea sed to present three relatively long descriptive papers-two dealing with South American ethnography; and onewith the Russian period in Alaska. Thesfirst, on the Tapajo Indians of Brazil,-has been translated, with additions, from Curt Nimuendaju's PQrtuguese original. After reviewing briefly the history of the Tapajo tribe, Nimuendaju presents a summary of the known ethnographic material.relating to this peopled . The translation given here acquires added interest through-the appended map, and through-a new and complote translation of MauriQio de Heriartels The Province of the Tapajose. -ts latter translation fills..-out and corrects NimuendaJiu's article. ..Nuendajii's map is reproduced here through the courtesy of. Helen. C*..Pa-matary, and shows the `black. earth" 'sites discussed by the author. The second paper of the issue continues the Society's policy of publishing-manuscript material relating to the Russian period in Alaska. The contributon. here consists of a reproduction of the manuscript translatilon; Qf.a fragment from the journal of the Reverend Father Juvenal, miasionary to the Koniags and Iliamna people. This journal throws valuable light upon the relations existing between the Russian clergy and the natives in the last decade of the 18th century. It is unfortunate that Juvenal did not record native customs in greater detail, at least in the fragment given here. Longer descriptions may exist in the original, the location of which is unknown. The Society wishes to thank the Bancroft Library of the University of California for permission to publish this manuscript. The last article presents a detailed reconstruction of the history of a tribe of northeastern Venezuela, the Guayqueri. This work attempts to fix an aboriginal tribe in time and space by considering the source materials from the time of the early Spaniards until the present, and by studying the nature of culture contact and change throughout this post-contact period. By such an analysis some order is established in the medley of historical references. Bernard G. Hoffman, Editor . ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .We wrish to offer 'our sincere thanks to those *hose names.appear below, fdr their generous assistance in the preparation of' this issue 'gf theKroeber Anth-rpological-Soiety Paper '3 Mart Allison .. . Rachl Eiokman Pattiioia Marks Ri cha rd Ba chenhe imer.; Albert Elsasser - rgery MCorkle Marie Beckham Winifred Elsasser Thomas MoCorkle. James Bennyhoff Leroy Fischer Theodore McCown Suzanne Bessac - James Arthur Freed Thema.a McKer - Thomas Bolt. James Gataway. ..Clement Meighan William Burd Nancy Gilmer -William Newbem Octavie Page Carleton Cherie Gregoire - Renald- Olson- Marjorie. Cline Shirley Gudmundeen Arnold Pilling Patricia Cody ..Mary Haas -:Janet Pumphrey Rnbert Conkling Bernard, Eoftman Dnrothy Riddell John Costa nHarriet Huguenin Jbhf Rowe Nancy Crenshaw Kathryn Huggins ..Ruth Shelley Charmian Crittenden Mary Jeain Kennedy Carol Wallace Chariot Davis. David- Kleinecke -Dwight Wallace Goode Davis Nancy Laubach - Mary Anne Whipple Ruth Dowdakin Adra Long Sylvia N: - Broadbent ; Gordon L. Groaccup Patricia L. Kl ineake Publi cat ions .Mangers -. :.,-vi. ,** CONTENTS Preface, by Bernard Go Hoffman v The Tapajo, by Curt Nimuondaju. Translated aiid Edited by John Howland Rowe 1 A Daily Journal Kept by the Rev. Father Juvenal, One of the Earliest Missionaries to Alaska. Translated by Ivan Petrov 26 The History of the Guayqueri, an Approach to the Anthropology of Northeastern Venezuela,1 by Thomas MoCorkle 6M MAPS Map of the Lago Grande de Villa Franca, by Curt Nimuenda ju ,opp. 10 Map Showing the Rev. Father Juvenal's Journey to the Illamna Country 30 Historic Locations of Guayqueri ani Guayoari Groups in Vene zuela opp. 78