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die of tlie insult. If. liowcvcr. these coverings are touched or torn off by 

 an enemy or a stranger no harm is done. l>ut if the men are careless 



386. KAVIROXDO WOMEN, XZOIA KIVEK 



about body covering they devote considerable pains to their head-gear. 

 Besides circlets of hippopotamus ivory they will wear large tufts of black 

 ostrich feathers over the forehead, or shaggy plumes made from cocks' 

 feathers, or the long tails of the Chera (widow finch). They also construct 



