Using a blow-pipe!
This was part of the tour about how the local Quitians (before the Incas and the Spanish arrived) lived near the equator and about their traditions. Indeed, this was the blowpipe which was great fun to use and I just missed the cactus I was aiming at! They also went into detail about how the tribes made shrunked human heads (exactly as seen in the Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford).
The spooky part was that when the chief died, it was customary to be buried in a big pot (symballising being in a womb and being reborn into another life)in a grave. Next to him, the wife was also buried. However (and this is the grizzly bit) the wife was given a drink which made her unconcious for a while, then she was buried in another big pot next to the dead chief. She would then awaken after being buried and die of suffocation whilst trying to get out. Not my cuppa tea!
