XIII ETHIOPIAN FASHIONS IN HAIR-DRESSING 163 

 district (I888) and described the men. They go naked, 



not from necessity, for they have 

 and hides, l)nt it is the fashion 

 among tlieni. Some of the 

 i\Iashulvulunil)i liave tlieir hair, 

 as well as that removed from 

 the heads of their wives, worked 

 into a tall cone two and a half 

 feet hiii'h. The base of the cone 

 is fixed to the back of the head, 

 and made to curve forwards so 

 that its apex is straight above 

 the head, and to it a strip from 

 the horn of a sable antelope is 

 fixed. 'Jdiis strip of horn is 

 strong enough to stand upright, 

 yet waves with every movement 

 of the head. A. cone of hair and 

 horn sometimes measures five 

 feet in height. In building 

 these cones tlie hair is made to 

 felt with grease, and as it can- 

 not be washed when once worked 

 up in this way, soon swarms with 

 vermin. A metallic stylet is 

 stuck in the tuft to serve as a 

 scrateher when the ^'ermin are 

 too active. 



Selous shrewdly remarks that 

 men with hair dressed in this 

 way must necessarily live in an 

 open country ; they never could 

 get through bush. I have had 

 an opportunity of examining two 

 of these cones from Mr. Selous's 

 museum. Mr. Long, who re- 

 cently visited the Mashukulumbi, 

 informed me that this odd 



hirge herds of cattle 



The lioail of a Maslmkuluinbi 

 witli a fantastic chignon 

 fifty inches high. The 

 cone is formed of liair and 

 the terminal section is a 

 strip of horn from the sable 

 antelope. (From a speci- 

 men kindly lent by Mr. 

 F. G. Selous.) 



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