690 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1893. 



Among tlie men the bead is either entirely shaved, as among the 

 Panaka of the Kokonor, or they follow, in central and parts of eastern 

 Tibet, the Chinese fashion of shaving all the hair exce]»t on the crown, 

 and doing that up into a queue, or else the hair is allowed to hang 

 down naturally over the shoulders and is trimmed over the eyes, as 

 among the Drupas. Among these latter a concession is usually made 

 to Chinese ideas, and while wearing the hair in the last-mentioned way, 

 a portion of it is i)laited into a queue, or a queue of false hair is fastened 

 onto the shaggy mop of natural hair and tails down to the ground,* 



Among the women the national mode of arranging the hair, a mode 

 which in slightly modified forms is found from Ladak to the Kokonor, 

 is to make innumerable little plaits falling from the crown of the head 

 down over the shoulders and reaching to the waist. (See Diary of a 

 Journey, etc., p. 266.) In some parts of the country, as in Bat'ang, 

 Chala (Ta-chien-lu), etc., the hair is worn in one big plait hanging 

 down the back, Avhile in central Tibet (Lh'asa, Shigatse, etc) it is done 

 up in two or three large plaits, worn either hanging down in front 

 or more usually twisted around the head. In certain i)arts of Jyade 

 a combination of the national headdress and the Chinese queue is 

 the style adopted. The mode of dressing the hair does not vary in 

 the same locality among the unmarried and married women, though the 

 ornaments do, the married ones wearing many more, but among the 

 males it is customary to keep boys' heads completely shaved till they 

 are nearly nubile. 



Though the men among the ])astoral Tibetans take absolutely no 

 care of tlieir hair, beyond rubbing occasionally a little butter on the 

 scalp, by which means, they say, they keep out vermin and the skin is 

 made healthier, the women devote much time to rearranging cheir fre- 

 quently elaborate headdress, combing the hair (they use the coarse 

 heavy woodeu Chinese combs) and in plaiting it once or more a week. 



The only Tibetan men who wear ornaments on their hair are to be 

 found among the pastoral tribes, where a large queue, usually of false 

 hair, is worn in addition to their full suit of tangled locks. On this 

 queue, which terminates in a tassel of black silk and frequently reaches 

 to the ground, they either string finger rings (pi. o, tigs. 10 and 11) and 

 rings of ivory, or they sew on a narrow strip of red cloth big pieces of 

 turquoise and small charm boxes, similar in shape and size to tig. 12. 

 This band is fastened on the queue at about the height of the shoulders 

 and reaches to the waist or lower. The queue is usually worn wound 

 around the head, and the ornaments on it form a cro^vn, the big ivory 

 ring being always in front. 



An earringis worn in the left ear by the men in most parts of Tibet. 

 In the Kokonor it is a large gold or silver hoop about 2 inches in diam 



* E. H. Parker, China Review, x viii, p. 57, says : " Long before the Mongols existed 

 as a State the Niicben Tartars were called inen-fa-cho ('queuo wearers') by the 

 Chinese, and, like their kinsmen, the Manchiis, they made the Chinese they conquered 

 shave their heads." 



