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or of innumerable circlets of shells from a kind of fresli-water mussel. 

 These thin segments are drilled with a hole in the middle and jiacked 



317. A MIKONJO 5IAN FKOM THE SOUTH OK KIWKXZOHI 



closely together on the string. I have never observed amongst the 

 Kakonjo any piercing of the ear lobe or wearing of ear-rings. In such 

 points as these they follow the same customs as the Bahima. Kings of 



