By B. Le Roy Gordon
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Rectangular roof* pottery apex to roof................................................................................................... :........................ fireplace on ground* rock hearthstones...................................... termite nest ? and rock* hearthstones bench-bed................................................ at least two types of houses ........... very large ceremonial houses ........... palma amarga thatch* C r a ft s silver-colored metal preferred...........................
88 In an account written in the seventeenth century it was said, 44 The Sinti Country of Colombia Some years past at the Villa de Tolu a great guayacin trunk drifted up on the beach which is washed by waters of the Rio Zenu. 89 The varied geometric designs on pottery rims preserve the im prints of what seem to be carved potters’ stamps. A pparel and O rnam ents Men went barefoot and unclothed" except for a penis-sheath, caracol, tied in place with a thread. ” The Spaniards considered the women to have been dressed in a polished, even elegant, fashion.