•■ Anthropology : Physical 



in abhorrence.^ The ears of the women and sometimes of the 

 men are pierced for the insertion of earrings. This, in Liberia, 

 is rather a Muhammadan or European custom. Nowhere in 

 this land does the practice exist — so common in Eastern and 



376. A GBANDI WOMAN FKOM WESTERN LIBERIA, 

 SHOWING STYLE OF HAIR-DRESSING 



Central Africa — of introducing into the lobe of the ear discs 

 of wood or stone ; neither in any of these tribes do the women 

 perforate and enlarge the upper lip. 



' Yet, as has been pointed out in several medical reports from West Africa, 

 the Kru men stand greatly in need of this prophylactic custom, for reasons which 

 may be gleaned from those reports. 



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