: HILL TRIBES OF NORTH FORMOSA. 73 
wearing a resemblance to one: as a rule all hairs appearing 
on the chin or cheek are plucked out by the roots, a small pair 
of tweezers being used for the purpose 
The shape of the heads of savages varies considerably, 
though the majority of them appear round and rather small. 
Their faces are for the most part of a Malayan type, some have 
a Jewish cast, and again you observe faces whose profiles 
resemble those of Europeans. i am inclmed to think 
that these differences in physiognomies are attributable 
to the mixture of Malay, Philippine and Polynesian blood with 
the original ancient stocks previously existing in the island. 
- The men of the northern tribes are in the habit of tat- 
tooimg the forehead and chin in horizontal lines of about 
three quarters of an inch in length, and one-sixteenth part of 
an inch in breadth right in the centre of the forehead from the 
parting of the hair, which is always in the middle, to the root 
of the nose. 
On the chin, also, are similar horizontal lines, and these 
are, asarule,the only tattoo marks that are visible on the faces 
ofthe men. On the body they tattoo shghily, butit is not very 
general amongst them. ‘The men have also a curious custom 
of piercing the lobes of their ears. Each lobe has a hole 
through it, large enough to receive a piece of bamboo about 
the size of a Manila cheroot. They usually wear therein 
hollow pieces of young bamboo with tufts of scarlet long-ells 
sticking out of the opening at the upper end ; others insert 
pieces of what appears to be white cuttle-fish bone, about four in- 
ches long, with a disc made of the same material in the outer end. 
On the foreheads of some of the inen may be seen similar flat 
but round pieces of cuttle-fish bone, fixed there by means of a 
piece of string round the head or attached to a circlet or wreath 
of embroidered camlets or native-made cloth. On their small, 
tight-fitting caps, they frequently fix circular pieces of this white 
cuttle-fish bone, or whatever it is. It seems to be quite a com- 
mon article of barter amongst them. They use strings of small 
beads made of cuttle-fish bone not only as ornaments for their 
heads and necks, but as a “ circulating medium.” Necklaces, 
earrings and trinkets of various kindsare made of it. The 
