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and the ears of the fea-animal, called Scivutcha or fea- 

 lion ; they alfo adorn thefe caps with beads of diflerent 

 colours, and with little figures of bone or ftone. In 

 the partition of the noftrils they place a pin, about 

 four inches long, made of the bone, or of the flalk. 

 of a certain black plant ; fron:i the ends of this pin or 

 bodkin they hang, in fine weather and on feftivals, rows 

 of beads, one below the other. They thruft beads, and 

 bits of pebble cut like teeth, into holes made in the un- 

 der-lips. They alfo wear firings of beads in their ears, 

 with bits of amber, which the inhabitants of the other 

 illands procure from Alaxa, in exchange for arrows and 

 kamli. 



They cut their hair before juft above the eyes, and 

 fome fliave the top of their heads like monks. Behind 

 the hair is loofe. The drefs of the women hardly dif- 

 fers from that of the men, excepting that it is made 

 of fifli-fls.ins. They few with l)one needles, and thread 

 made of fidi guts, faftening their work to the ground 

 before them v.ith bodkins. They go with the head 

 uncovered, and the hair cut like that of the men be- 

 fore, but tied up behind in a high knot. They paint 

 their cheeks with ftrokes of bine and red, and wear 

 noie-pins, beads, and ear-rings like the men ; they hanp- 

 beads round their neck, and checkered firings round 

 their arms and legs. 



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