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wear Beards in them, made of Turtle or Tortoise-shell, in the 

 form you see in the Margin. (See Fig. 15, p. 321.) The 

 little notch at the upper end they put in through the Lip, 

 where it remains between the Teeth and the Lip ; the under 

 part hangs down over their Chin. This they commonly wear 

 all day, and when they sleep they take it out. They have 

 likewise holes bored in their Ears, both Men and Women, 

 when young, and by continual stretching them with great 



FIG. 16. Botocudo Indian. From Bigg-Wither's 

 Pioneering in South Brazil (1878). 



Pegs, they grow to be as big as a mill'd five Shilling Piece. 

 Herein they wear pieces of Wood, cut very round and smooth, 

 so that their Ear seems to be all wood, with a little Skin 

 about it." 



It is very remarkable that an almost exactly similar 

 custom still prevails among a tribe of Indians inhabiting the 

 southern part of Brazil the Botocudos, so called from a Portu- 

 guese word (botoque), meaning a plug or stopper. Among these 

 people the lip-ornament consists of a conical piece of hard 

 and polished wood, frequently weighs a quarter of a pound, 



