x ORNAMENTS FOR THE EARS AND LIPS 125 



Could I come near your beauty with my nails, 

 I'd set my ten commandments in your face. 



This is a neat reference to the marks left by ten 

 tinker nails. 



The Kikuyu women when they "fall out" snatch at 

 each other's ear loops and endeavour to break them. 



A Kikuyu man with a plug of wood in the lobe 

 of the ear. 



A surgeon, who practises in Nairobi informs me that 

 on several occasions, he has succeeded in reuniting ear- 

 loops broken in this way, and the natives have men 

 among them who perform plastic surgery of this kind 

 very successfully. 



As a result of the British occupation of the Protector- 



