Liberia 



and this head-covering has become very popular, displacing 

 to a great extent the really artistic embroidered and padded 

 skull-caps of native manufacture. 



The men of these Muhammadan tribes sometimes wear 

 anklets, and they always wear one or more finger-rings. An 





366. KKU \VOMKN IN (JALA MTIKK, WITH KNOKMOUS FIViKK 

 KI.\(;S, KAM'S IIOKNS, AND ISEAU NECKLACKS 



amulet of some kind (usually a verse of the Koran sewn up in 

 leather) is hung round the neck. Individuals may wear five 

 or six or even more of these oblong or oval-shaped amulets. 

 In some cases they are much larger and nearly square, and 

 are worn outside the clothing, depending from a plaited 

 leather necklace. A three-cornered amulet is sometimes attached 



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