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enable the wearer to remove it, about £ of it ean be 

 opened by means of a triangular well-tilting long tongue, 

 fastened by a peg of metal at each side. 



Anklets. The most extraordinary ornaments worn by 

 the females are the anklets of which 1 have two, one for 

 an adult and one for a girl. 



Figure 5 is an elliptical brass ring turned up at each 

 end, and weighing 2i lbs. ; longitudinally it measures 6£ 

 inches, and transversely 4 inches ; the aperture which en- 

 closes the foot is in the same directions 3£ and 2\ inches. 



The part which comes in contact with the skin is smooth ; 

 the upper and outside surfaces are ornamented with raised 

 rosettes, continuous and dotted lines, and various promi- 

 nences longitudinal and transverse; the higher anterior 

 and posterior portions are most highly ornamented, both 

 above and below, and are nearly alike; they seem to be 

 casts, finished by hand. This is evidently for an adult, 

 and is an inch in diameter, or three in circumference, at 

 its smallest part, and a little thicker in the middle and at 

 the ends; design artistic. 



