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thrown away on account of their offensive smell. 1 With the Samoyeds 

 the caps and the konitza (an article of female dress) are made of this 

 fur. 2 Ravenstein 3 gives an account of this use by the Kiptchaks, 

 Kraschenuikow 4 by the Kamchatkans. In Kamchatka, as Steller has 

 quoted from the yearbooks of Tag, a sort of cloth is made from dog's 

 hair and different grasses. 5 The use to cover boxes in North America 

 and flasks on St. Kilda 7 is old. We find the custom widely spread of 

 using the separate parts of the body of the dog for adornment, and, on 

 the other hand, examples of expensive dog collars. In the latter con- 

 nection K. Schumann/' the famous traveler, mentions that the Japa- 

 nese, as has been related by the Arabs, made for favorite dogs, monkeys, 

 etc , gold collars, thus anticipating the eccentricities of modern French 

 and American ladies, such as Patti and others. The old Egyptians 

 fitted their fine greyhounds with quite broad collars. 9 The fine dogs 

 of the Bashilangi do not wear collars, but a band around the belly, 

 similar to many Siberian draft dogs. 10 As an adornment and also as a 

 means of deceptive decoration, the tails of many hairy animals are used. 

 In Majorca part of the Sunday costume of every girl is a neat braid, 

 not always genuine, as many fasten a cow's tail therein. 11 Before this, 

 in ancient times, Indian women plaited the black hair of the yak 

 under their own natural locks, xai hog /uovrrai juaXa aoffaiaos.™ Gus- 

 tav Nachtigal saw in Wadai a Sklav woman who had fastened two 

 heavy braids of sheep's hair under her own. 13 To the northward from 

 the Victoria Nyauza, Baker met two men with horns on their heads 

 and cow's tails instead of beards. 14 Many tribes of Indians comb the 

 hair of the dead carefully, and in order to make the braid longer plait 

 into it buffalo hair. 15 These analogies will suffice, and it is unnecessary 

 to dwell upon those Australians who insert the bushy tail of the dingo 

 dog into their beards in order to make them longer. 16 The Wahaha 

 carry dog tails on their spears. The finger-long head of the spear is 

 burned into the handle and held fast by the skin of such a tail drawn 

 around it while still green. 17 The Parsi receive at puberty a girdle of 



1 Greenland in Brewster's Encyclopedia. 



-Zeitschr. f. allg. Erdk. N. F., X, 86; Ernian, Reiseum die Erde I, 701. 



:) The Russians on the Aruoor, p. 317. 



4 Beschr. des L. Kamtschatka, p. 128. 



5 Zeitsclir. f. allg. Erdk. N. F. ; XVI, 315. 



'•'Nairn-, 1893, 161. 



'Harnb. Echo, Beilage zu 17, 2, 1889. 



8 Marco Polo, p. 25. 



s Ebers, Cicerone durch Aegypteu, I, 161. 



lopoggeiu Mitth. d. afrikan. Ges. in Deutschland, IV, 248. 



11 Pagenstecker, Die Insel Mallorca, p. 135. 



12 Aelian. 



13 Sahara und Sudan, III, 80. 



14 Zeitschr. der Ges. f. Erdke., 1, 103. 



15 Dodge, The Indians of the Far West, p. 114. 

 l '« Waitz, VI, 735, 736; Zeitschr. f. Ethn., VI, 278. 

 17 Deutsche Kohmial-Zeitung, 1891, 162. 



