The eleventh group consists of three figures, a woman of Oaxaca, southern Mexico, and two men, representing the Piro and Jivaro tribes of the headwaters of the Amazon. The Oaxacan woman is dressed in a skirt of striped native-woven cloth, held by a belt. The upper part of the body is covered with a tastefully decorated tunic. The head is protected by a long sash or rebozo. She carries in her left hand a red earthen drinking cup and in her right two gourd vessels. The third figure is a Piro man, Arawakan family, head of the Ucayle, interesting because tribes speaking the same language were met by Columbus on his first voyage to America. He wears a tunic of native make, embellished with artistic patterns, and confined only by a sash of beads decorated with skins of birds passing over the right shoulder and beneath the left arm. The headdress consists of a bark band in which are set three bird plumes. He holds in both hands a ceremonial baton. The Jivaro man lives on the headwaters of the river Maranon. He wears a tasteful and brilliant feather skirt and headdress, ornaments of teeth, beetle wings, and seeds. This tribe, one of the most forceful and independent in South America, preserve the dried heads of their enemies.
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