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•peration is made, [religion.' 



its nature cannot properly be called a circumcifion. 

 Both fexes have many marks on their fkin, made by puncturing 



the part with a toothed inftrument of bone 



dip 



lamp black 



and water 



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this method they imprint marks which are 



indelible for life. The men have fometimes 



only a black 



part on their buttocks, but "fonietimes on the arms and even their 



this 



manner 



of 



and 



on 



fides, and various other parts of the body marked 



The toothed inftrument is called Eoowee-tatattaoUy a 



wood, with which they conftantly ftir the black colour 



one end of which they have contrived a kind of fmall club of the 



thicknefs of a finger, is the fecond infiirurnent employed on this 



occafion 3 with the fmall club they give repeated gentle firokes on 



the toothed inftrument, in order to make it pierce 



fpatula-is called ^atae\ and the black colour araho 



arches which they defign 



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on 



buttocks obtain the name of 



avaree y the parts which are one mafs of black on the buttocks 

 arc named /i?z/Wrr^, and the arches which are thus defigned on 

 the buttocks of their females, and are honourable marks of their 

 puberty, are csLllcd toto-^oowa : the priefis are the only perfons 



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entitled to perform thefe operations, and are paid for their trouble 



in cloth, fowls, fifh, and after the 

 commodities, in nails and beada. 



had obtained Europcati 



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