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NATIVE FASHIONS. 



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But it is in tlie adornment (?) of their heads that the Wagogo 

 principally exercise their inventive powers, and nothing is too 

 absurd or hideous to please them. 



Some twist their wool into innumerable small strings, artifi- 

 cially lengthened by w^orking in fibres of the baobab-tree, and 

 either make them project wildly in all directions, or allow them 



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 1873. 



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to fall more naturally, cutting them level with the eyebrows, 

 but letting them lie in a mass on the back of the neck. On 

 the ends of these strings there are often little brass balls and 

 different-colored beads. 



Others cover their heads with copper pice brightly polished, 

 or shave the greater part of the crown, training from the un- 

 shorn portions a varying number of stiff tails frequently wound 



