[Aroid-l] Cannibal among the Aroids

From: mossytrail at hctc.com (mossytrail) on 2007.09.03 at 00:38:24(16203) > Hi Julius, I found him using Google Image, it's Albert > Eckhout, if I'm looking at the correct photo- it is VERY > disturbing. I didn't see any Aroids... but the thing at > her heels looks like the "Chupacabra" they found in Mexico > http://members.iif.hu/visontay/ponticulus/images/eckhout_tarairiu.jpg > This image may have been cutoff. I seem to recall in the original message about it, he said one of her hands was pointing to the aroid. If you look carefully, you can see the tips of some large leaves at the far left, and I suspect in the original image, more of them showed. Can anyone find a more complete image, one that shows the whole leaves? As to her carrying dismembered bodies, I believe the artist was implying that her tribe were cannibals. The word cannibal, as we all know, was derived from Carib (think Pirates of the Caribbean, part 2), and surely the Caribs proper were not the only tribe in the region to have the practice. +More Jason Hernandez Naturalist-at-Large

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