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on the crown, or a few club it behind, after our 

 manner. Both sexes have the ears perforated with 

 several holes about the outer and lower part of 

 the edge, in which they hang little bunches of beads, 

 made of the same tubulose shelly substance used for 

 this purpose by those of Nootka. The septum of the 

 nose is also perforated, through which they frequently 

 thrust the quill-feathers of small birds, or little bend- 

 ing ornaments made of the above shelly substance, 

 strung on a stiff string or cord three or four inches 

 long, which give them a truly grotesque appear- 

 ance. But the most uncommon and unsightly orna- 

 mental fashion adopted by some of both sexes, is 

 their having the under lip slit, or cut quite through, 

 in the direction of the mouth, a little below the 

 swelling part. This incision, which is made even in 

 the sucking children, is often above two inches long; 

 and either by its natural retraction when the wound 

 is fresh, or by the repetition of some artificial manage- 

 ment, assumes the true shape of lips, and become so 

 large as to admit the tongue through. This hap- 

 pened to be the case, when the first person having 

 this incision was seen by one of the seamen, who 

 called out that the man had two mouths, and, indeed, 

 it does not look unlike it. In this artificial mouth 

 they stick a flat narrow ornament, made chiefly out 

 of a solid shell or bone, cut into little narrow pieces 

 like small teeth, almost down to the base or thickest 

 part, which has a small projecting bit at each end 

 that supports it when put into the divided lip, the 

 cut part then appearing outward. Others have the 

 lower lip only perforated into separate holes, and 

 then the ornament consists of as many distinct shelly 

 studs, whose points are pushed through these holes, 

 and their heads appear within the lip, as another row 

 of teeth immediately under their own. 



These are their native ornaments. But we found 

 many beads of European manufacture among them, 

 chiefly of a pale blue colour, which they hang in their 



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