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her ankles was so great as to necessitate wrapping these with 

 rags." Nubian women are particularly fond of silver, often 

 wearing several watch-chains, three pairs of bracelets, bangles^ 

 ankle and leg ornaments, hair-pins, etc. That things were not 

 much better in olden days is shown by Isaiah's remarks regarding 

 the Jewesses : " Moreover the Lord saith. Because the daughters 

 of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks and 

 wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tink- 

 ling with their feet. ... In that day the Lord will take away the 

 bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their 

 cauls, and their round tires like the moon, the chains, and the brace- 

 lets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, 

 and the headbands, and the tablets and the ear-rings, the rings and 

 nose jewels, the changeable suits of apparel and the mantles, and the 

 wimples, and the crisping pins, the glasses, and the fine linen, and 



the hoods and the veils" (Isaiah, 

 iii, lG-23). King Munza, whose 

 state dress we spoke of in the 

 last lecture, had an extensive 

 wardrobe of ornaments. It oc- 

 cupied several apartments. In 

 one room there was nothing but 

 hats and feathers, especially 

 those of the red parrot, arranged 

 in great round tufts. In one hut 

 were bundles of tails of civets, 

 genets, patamochoeri, and gi- 

 raffes, with skins and thousands 

 of ornaments. There were also 

 long strings of teeth of rare 

 animals, one of more than one 

 hundred lions' fangs. Surely it 

 would seem that he had enough. 

 An even more striking illustra- 

 tion of discomfort endured for 

 the sake of display than that of 

 Sebatuane's sister is the African belle who wore copper arm-rings 

 which became so hot in the sun's rays that she was obliged to 

 have an attendant with a watering-pot who would from time to 

 time drench her to cool the metal. 



We have already said that the desire for ornament has led to 

 much material progress. We believe that to it must be attributed 

 the origin and development of metal-working. The evidence of 

 this will be found in an examination of the metal-work of various 

 primitive peoples. The bronze relics from the Swiss lakes are 

 exceedingly various, but much the larger number of them are 



Fig. 9. — Samoan Chief with Ornaments. 



