Among these tribes, the Purupurus, although thorough savages, are
perhaps the best-known. They wear no clothes whatever; their
habitations are small huts rudely formed of boughs, which they set up on
the sand. Their canoes are of the rudest construction, having flat
bottoms and upright sides. They use neither the bow nor the gravatana,
but instead have a weapon called the palheta, from which they can cast
an arrow, as from a sling, with wonderful dexterity. In the septum of
the nose and in the ears they bore holes, in which they wear rings.