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are worn above tlie elbow, and also tliick, massive, white 

 rino-s one on each arm, varying from half an inch to three 

 and a half inches in width, and so very nicely polished as 

 to imply a good deal of labour in making them. Their 

 nose ornaments, as here figured, include tortoise-shell rings. 



XftSF, ORNAMENTS. 



perforating the cartilage ot the nostrils, into which are 

 inserted externally pins prettily made with bead handles,^ 

 crabs' claws, &c. ; another variety is figured farther on." 

 They had also bands of a good sized white shell worn round 

 the head, just al)ove the eyes which they shade ; another 



' The ornameiit in the first figured nostril is a bead-handled pin 

 with a porpoise tooth strung upon it. The one figured below it has a 

 species of Dentaliuni inserted on cither side. 



■^ Infi-i), p. 2^A: 



