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up the thigh ; and fcarcely any of them are without mittens ^77'^- 



May 



for the hands, made of the fkins of bears paws. Thofe ' . ' _/ 

 who wear any thing on their heads, refembled, in this re- 

 fpe(5l, our friends at Nootka ; having high truncated conic 

 caps, made of ftraw, and fomctimes of wood, refembling a 

 feal's head well painted. 



The men commonly wear the hair cropt round the neck 

 and forehead ; but the women allow it to grow long ; and mofl: 

 of them tie a fmall lock of it on the crown ; or a few club it 

 behind, after our manner. Both fexes have the ears perfo- 

 rated with feveral holes, about the outer and lower part of 

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

 of the fame tubulofe flielly fubflance ufed for this purpofe 

 by thofe of Nootka. The feptum of the nofe is alfo perfo- 

 rated ; through which they frequently thrufl: the quill-fea- 

 thers of fmall birds, or little bending ornaments, made of 

 the above flielly fubflance, flrung on a flifF firing or cord, 

 three or four inches long, which give them a truly gro- 

 tefque appearance. But the mofl uncommon and unfightly 

 ornamental fafliion, adopted by fome of both fexes, is their 

 having the undcr-iip flit, or cut, quite through, in the di- 

 redlion of the mouth, a little below the fwelling part. This 

 incifion, which is made even in the fucking children, is 

 often above two inches long; and either by its natural re- 

 tradlion, when the wound is frefli, or by the repetition of 

 fome artificial management, afTumes the true fhapc of lips, 

 and becomes fo large as to admit the tongue through. This 

 happened to be the cafe, when tlie firft perfon having this 

 incifion was feen by one of the feamen, who called out, that 

 the man had two mouths ; and, indeed, it does not look un- 

 like it. In this artificial mouth they fdck a flat, narrow or- 

 nament, made chiefly out of a folid fliell or bone, cut into 



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