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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



except with reference to their custom of wearing the large and 

 broad lip and ear ornaments shown in the accompanying illustra- 

 tions. Several travelers in Bra- 

 zil have given figures of Indi- 

 ans using such ornaments, not- 

 ably Spix and Von Martius, 

 MaximiHen Wied - Neuwied, 

 Hartt, Jean de Lery, Bigg- 

 Wither, and Von Tschudi. It 

 may be said of the illustrations 

 given by those writers, how- 

 ever, that they, without excep- 

 tion, fail to give the character- 

 istic features and expressions 

 of the Botocudus, or, for that 

 matter, of any Indians. Those 

 used in the present article, on 



FIG. 1. BOTOCUDU WOMAN. The flesh band ot , -i , -i T_ j i_ i_ 



the lip has been broken and the ends tied the ther hand > have been Care - 



together with a piece of bark, that the lip fully drawn from photographs 



ornament may be used. An opening has ^^p f pw V p aT ,c, a o- o V>v M 

 been made in the ear lobe, but it is not of a I6W y earS a & 1V1 



the customary wze. Marc Ferrez, photographer to 



the Imperial Geological Sur- 

 vey of Brazil, and may be relied upon for their accuracy. The 

 subjects chosen for the photo- 

 graphs were selected with a view 

 to securing the best types that 

 could be had, but it should be 

 remembered that the Botocudus 

 of to-day are rapidly approach- 

 ing extinction, and that their 

 customs are probably modified 

 to a considerable extent since 

 the visit of Spix and Von Mar- 

 tius, which was made in 1817 to 

 1820.* 



The custom of wearing the 

 lip and ear ornaments is a very 

 ancient one among the Botocu- 

 dus, for the earliest travelers 

 found it in vogue when the con- 

 tinent was ^ discovered. Hans FlG . 2 ._ BoTOCUDU WoMAN , with both 



Stade, who lived among the Ay- and ear ornaments of average size. 



lip 



* Rum has much to do with the wiping out of the native Indians of Brazil. The 

 whites, especially the original settlers of the country, treated them without pity, enslaving 

 them and killing them upon the slightest provocation or with no provocation whatever. 



