-* Anthropology : Physical 



of beads or other adornments. Amongst the people of Kru 

 stock (De, Basa, Gibi, Kru, Grebo, and their inland relations) 

 and amongst the Kpvvesi, the men's clothing in its simplest 

 form will be a piece of cloth passed between the legs and brought 

 up in front and behind through and over the waist-girdle, which 

 is a ring of metal or of twisted fibre. Amongst the coast tribes 



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360. A CHIEF OF THE GREBO COUNTKV, MARYLAND 



this is arranged with some neatness, and it may even be cut 

 and sewn till it assumes more the form of a pair of short bathing 

 drawers ; or it may be reduced to a mere bag concealing the 

 genitalia. In the coast regions the men of these tribes sometimes 

 add a long shirt without sleeves, in addition to which they are 

 now beginning to wear (especially if they are married men of 



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