Note 294 — Chapter XLIV

The Cañaris wore their hair long, and rolled it up in a knot on the top of their heads. On the knot of hair they fastened a wooden hoop, from which hung a fringe of various colours. The commoner sort, in place of this hoop, wore a small calabash over their hair, and hence the whole tribe was nicknamed by the other Indians Mathe-uma (Mathe in Quichua is a calabash, and Uma, head). G. de la Vega, i, lib. viii, cap. 4.