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his forehead was a neat checkered pattern of yellow on the 

 black background. Another's face was divided by a vertical line 

 in two parts, one of which was a bright yellow, the other an 

 equally bright green. Among the Fijians face-painting is carried 

 to the extreme e. g., " face all scarlet except nose, which is black ; 



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Fig. 8. 



face divided like a quartered heraldic shield and painted red and 

 black or white ; black face, white nose, scarlet ring about each 

 eye, and a white crescent on forehead," etc. 



And of our own ancestors, the Britons, Caesar said : " All Brit- 

 ons, however, paint themselves with woad {vitro), which gives a 

 dark-blue color, and by this means they appear terrible in battle ; 

 they wear long hair, and the whole body is shaved except the 

 head and upper lip " (v, xiv). 



And we may select a last example from Egypt. Loret says 

 the ancient Egyptian women had blue hair, green eyelashes, 

 painted teeth, and reddened cheeks. He says the modern Egyp- 

 tian women are much the same ; they tinge their hands with 

 henna, and prolong the eyes by means of kohol ; they stain the 

 nails brown, and paint blue stars on the chin and forehead. " One 

 hesitates a little about putting his hand into a hand even very 

 small which extends itself to you painted a brick-red. One is 



