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DRESS AND ADORNMENT. 



Dress. Of taimed goat skins, rubbed ^vitll red oclior, beaded 0!i the 

 edges. Sections of skin are ])ieced togetlier into a sort of shawl. 

 There are no sleeves and apparently no means <»f fastening the 

 garment. Worn by boys and girls. 



W;i Chaga tribe; Mount. Kilinia-Njaro, East Africa. 151585 



Dress. Of dressed goat skins dyed with red ochcr. fringed on three 

 sides. 



Wa Chaga tribe; Machauie, Mount Kilinia-Njaru, East Atrica. 151590 



Face RUEF. Of ostrich, feathers, fastened between two oval plates of 

 leather. The rims of the i)lates are decorated with a line of red 

 paint on a white ground. Worn anmnd the border of the face in 

 Avar. Loops on the front are for insertion of white ostrich jdumes, 

 generally two in number. | Fig. •">, page [lliJ.J 

 Dimeusious, 20 by 14 inches. 



Masai tribe; Mount Kilima-Njai'o, East Alrica. 151199 



The manner of wearing this rutt" is sliown in one of the plates to Fischer's 

 "Masailand", Mittheil. Geog. Gesellsch. in Hamburg. lS82-'3. Heft, ii. 



Face-RI'FE. Of black feathers sewed l)etween oval pieces of leather. 

 Worn around the face by Chaga warriors in imitation of the Masai. 



Outside dimensions, 23 by IB inche.i. 



Wa Chaga tribe; Mount Kilima-Njaro, East Africa. 151537 



Face-rufe. Halo of dark plumes set into an oval structure of leather. 

 Worn around the face by wariiors in imitation of the Masai. 



Wa Chaga tribe; Mcumt Kilima-Njaro, East Africa. 151538 



Face-RIN(;. ()\'al ring (»f leather without feathers. Worn around the 

 face in war. 



Masai tribe; Njiri, East Africa 151224 



Ostrich Plumes. I'sed as ornaments on apex of face ruffs. 



Masai tribe; Mount Kilima-Njaro, East Africa. 151246 



* The numbers in this catalogue relate to the entries in the Museum catalogue books of tlie Ethno- 

 logical Series. 



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