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contain tiger-cat s teeth; the Xew Guinea people ornament 

 their necks, arms, and waists with hogs teeth; while the 

 Sandwich Islanders have bracelets of the polished tusks of 

 the hog, with anklets of dogs teeth. Some Dacotahs wear 

 u a kind of necklace of white bear s claws, three inches 

 long.&quot; Among the Kukis &quot; a common armlet worn by the 

 men consists of two semi-circular boar s tusks tied together 

 so as to form a ring.&quot; Enumerating objects hanging from 

 a Dy ah s ear, Boyle includes &quot; two boar s tusks, one alli 

 gator s tooth.&quot; And picturing what her life would be at 

 home, a captive New Zealand girl in her lament says &quot; the 

 shark s tooth would hang from my ear.&quot; Though small 

 objects which are attractive in colour and shape, will natu 

 rally be used by the savage for decorative purposes, yet pride 

 in displaying proofs of his prowess, will inevitably make 

 him utilize fit trophies in preference to other things, when 

 he has them. The motive which made Mandans have their 

 buffalo-robes &quot; fringed on one side with scalp-locks,&quot; which 

 prompts a Naga chief to adorn the collar round his neck 

 with &quot; tufts of the hair of the persons he had killed,&quot; and 

 which leads the Hottentots to ornament their heads with 

 the bladders of the wild beasts they have slain, as Kolbcn 

 tells us, will inevitably tend to transform trophies into 

 decorations wherever it is possible. Indeed while I write 

 I find direct proof that this is so. Concerning the Snake 

 Indians, Lewis and Clarke say : 



&quot;The collar most preferred, because most honourable, is one of 

 the claws of the brown bear. To kill one of these animals is as dis 

 tinguished an achievement as to have put to death an enemy, and in 

 fact with their weapons is a more dangerous trial of courage. These 

 claws are suspended on a thong of dressed leather, and being orna 

 mented with beads, are worn round the neck by the warriors with 

 great pride.&quot; 



And sundry facts unite in suggesting that many of the 

 things used for ornaments were at first substitutes for tro 

 phies having some resemblance to them. When Tuckey 



