S16 



NATIVE ORNAMENTS. 



In what may be considered as full dress, with the 

 face and body painted, they are often decked out 

 with larg'e white cowries appended to the waist, 

 elbows and ankles, tog'ether with streamers of pan- 

 danus leaf. Among many kinds of bracelets or 

 armlets the most common is a broad woven one of 

 grass, fitting- very tightly on the upper arm. There 

 are others of shell, — one solid, formed by grinding 

 down a large shell (Trochus Niloticus) so as to 

 obtain a well polished transverse section, and an- 

 other in two or three pieces tied together, making a 

 round smooth ring ; of the former of these five or 

 six are sometimes worn on one arm. But the most 

 curious bracelet, and by no means an uncommon 



one, is that made 

 of a human lower 

 jaw with one or 

 more collar bones 

 closing the upper 

 side crossing from 

 one angle to the 

 other. Whether 

 these are the jaws of former friends or enemies we 

 had no means of ascertaining ; no great value ap- 

 peared to be attached to them ; and it was observed, 

 as a curious circumstance, that none of these jaws 

 had the teeth discoloured by the practice of betel 

 chewing. 



"We procured various sorts of necklaces, — strings 

 of shells, black seeds, and dogs teeth. As the 



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