DRESS AND ADORNMENT. 



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tion is unquestioned. No people are without ornaments ; many are 

 without dress. Ornaments are of two kinds those directly fixed 

 into the body, and those which are attached by a cord or band. 

 As soon as man hung an ornament on such a band, dress evolution 

 had begun. Lippert calls attention to the fact that some parts of 

 the body are naturally fitted to support bands or girdles ; they are 

 the temples, neck, arms above elbow, wrists, waist, legs above knee. 



Fig. 1. African Aprons, wrapped for Storage. 



ankles. There are girdles and bands of an ornamental character 

 and in the greatest variety for all these parts. They will be de- 

 scribed and illustrated in our next lecture. Nothing is more 

 simple than the passage of a cord about some one of these places, 

 and the hanging upon it of objects supposed to be beautiful. 



