X ORNAMENTS FOR THE EARS AND LIPS 125 



Could I come near ^rour beauty with ni}' nails, 

 I'll set my ten comniandnients in your face. 



This is a iient reference to tlie marks left l)y ten 

 finger nails. 



The Kikuyu women when tliey "fall ont " snatch at 

 each other's eav loops and endeavour to break them. 





A Kikuyu man with a plug of Avood in the lobe 

 of the ear. 



A surgeon, who practises in Nairobi informs me that 

 on several occasions, he has succeeded in reuniting ear- 

 loops broken in this way, and the natives have men 

 among them who perform plastic surgery of this kind 

 very successfully. 



As a result of the British occupation of the Protector- 



