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NOETH-EAST AFEICA. 



According to Schweinfurth, no other people possess a higher cephalic index ; it 

 would appear moreover that in certain districts the mothers compress the heads of 

 their children into certain shapes. Unlike so many other peoples of the riverain 

 reo-ions, the men do not go naked, but wear a strip of cloth, and the iron rings 

 which they wear on the arms, occasionally numbering several dozens, are so 

 arrano-ed as to form veritable pieces of armour. The women wear no loin-cloth, 



Fig. 36. — ^Chief Routes of Explorers in the Zauika Eegion. 

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merely attaching to the girdle a leafy branch or tufts of grass. Their ornaments 

 consist of nails or metal plates, which they pass through the lower lip. Bongo 

 women are often seen wearing, like the Botocudos of Brazil, inserted in the lip, a 

 disc large enough to be used as a plate. The dandies also insert pegs into the sides 

 of the lips, the nostrils, and other prominent parts of the body. Persons are seen 

 thus " pinned up " in a hundred different places. 



