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'778. little narrow pieces, like fmall teeth, almoft down to the 



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V— ^.^ — » bafc or thickeft part, which has a fmall projecting bit at 

 each end that fupports it when put into the divided lip ; the 

 cut part then appearing outward. Others have the lower 

 lip only perforated into feparate holes ; and then the orna- 

 ment confifts of as many diftindl fhelly ftuds, whofe points 

 are pufhed through thefe holes, and their heads appear 

 within the lip, as another row of teeth immediately under 

 their own. 



Thefe are their native ornaments. But we found many 

 beads of European manufa(5ture among them, chiefly of a 

 pale blue colour, which they hang in their ears ; about their 

 caps ; or join to their lip-ornamenis, which have a fmall 

 hole drilled in each point to which they are faftened, and 

 others to them, till they hang fometimes as low as the point 

 of the chin. But, in this laft cafe, they cannot remove 

 them fo eafdy ; for, as to their own lip-ornaments, they can 

 take them out with their tongue, or fuck within, at plea- 

 fure. They alfo wear bracelets of the flielly beads, or 

 others of a cylindrical fliape, made of a fubftance like am- 

 ber ; with fuch alfo as are ufed in their ears and nofes. And 

 fo fond are they, in general, of ornament, that they Hick 

 any thing in their perforated lip ; one man appearing witli 

 two of our iron nails proje(5ting from it like prongs ; and 

 another endeavouring to put a large brafs button into it. 



The men frequently paint their faces of a bright red, and 

 of a black colour, and fometimes of a blue, or leaden co- 

 lour ; but not in any regular figure ; and the women, in 

 fome mcaiure, endeavoured to imitate them, by pundluring 

 or llaining the chin with black, that comes to a point in 

 each check ; a pradice very fimilar to which is in fafliion 



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