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Two of these ornament-bearers would be capable of carrying a par- 

 ticularly heavy load of objects. These are the neck and the loins 

 girdles. To what extent the hanging of ornament upon these 

 girdles is carried is shown by the following cases mentioned by 

 Wood. A young Kaffir dressed for a visit is described as follows : 

 " He will wear furs, among them the Angora goat ; feathers in his 

 head-dress ; globular tufts of beautiful feathers on his forehead or 

 on the back of his head ; eagle feathers in fine head-dresses, as also 

 ostrich, lory, and peacock feathers. He ties so many tufts and tails 

 to his waist-girdle that he may almost be said to wear a kilt." Of 

 some other Africans " Around their waists they wear such masses 

 of beads and other ornaments that a solid kind of cuirass is made 

 of them and the center of the body quite covered with them." In 

 these cases, which might easily be multiplied, is it not evident 

 that the objects hung on to the girdle are simply ornamental, and 



Fig. 2. Southern Type of Dress. 



Loochoo Islanders. 

 characteristic. 



The hair-dressing is ethnically 



that one accustomed to wearing such a mass of objects would feel 

 shame at their absence ? This ornamental mass would, with in- 

 troduction of newer and lighter materials, give way to an apron 

 which would be really a modest covering, although originating in 

 ornament. The African apron and the Polynesian liku are devel- 

 oped from the waist-cord with its ornaments. In the same way 

 the neck-girdle might give rise to a cape for the shoulders. 



Examining the dress of the world, we can distinguish two 

 fairly marked types which we may designate, as Lippert does, the 

 northern and southern types of dress. The latter is really a devel- 

 opment from just these two pieces of dress the neck-girdle and 



