31633 Taruma 1-9 "In the early 1920s, the anthropologist/archaeologist Walter Roth claimed that the Taruma had all but become extinct as a separate group, which is corroborated by the missionary Father Cary-Elwes’s statements that in mid-1922 he had advised the Taruma to intermarry with the Waiwai: ‘Last time I was here [1919, EBC], I told the Tarumas that they were a sickly lot and clearly dying out, due probably to their in-marriage, and their only chance of survival was for them to take unto themselves Waiwai wives’ (Butt, Colson and Morton 1982:240; see also Rivière 1963:164). In spite of their incessant precarious situation over the last two centuries, there are still three Taruma speakers in Guyana, living among the Wapishana." Feeling the Need: The Borrowing of Cariban Functional Categories into Mawayana (Arawak) Off 3 1-9