354 FEEJEE GROUP. 
of the corkscrew form, which is called tombi. Their usual mode of 
sitting is represented in the cut on the preceding page. 
After they are married, the locks are clipped off, and the hair is 
kept short and frizzled like a thick wig. They frequently whiten it 
with lime, and then they call it ulu-lase. 
Another preparation is applied to the hair, for the purpose of cleans- ~ 
ing it. This, as has already been spoken of, is prepared from the 
ashes of the leaves of the bread-fruit tree. This is thick and viscid. 
They dip their heads into it, and their mops imbibe a large quantity of 
the liquid, so that on raising the head it courses down their cheeks, 
when on throwing the head from side to side it forms zigzag lines, 
each of which leaves its mark on the skin. These marks are con- 
sidered very ornamental, and are called ndraou. 
Those who have not as much hair as they desire, have recourse to 
wigs, which are made with such ingenuity as to baffle any attempt at 
detection. 
The face undergoes its daily ornamental style of painting. The oil 
of the maiketa, mixed with the soot or lampblack of the laudi-nut, is 
used to blacken it, and when this can be relieved by a vermilion nose, 
a few spots here and there of the same colour on the face, or a broad 
band of it passing diagonally over the visage, they fancy themselves 
and are considered by their fellows beautiful, and will sit for hours 
with a small six-penny looking-glass admiring themselves with great 
delight. The turban, or sala, and the maro are the distinguishing 
marks of chiefs. The former are of large size, with ample folds; the 
latter of a length conformable to the rank of the wearer. 
The sala is formed of light tapa, resembling taffeta, and is passed 
from one to a dozen times around the head. The maro, or seavo, for 
the full dress of a chief, is said to be sometimes as much as fifty yards 
in length, and on state occasions I have seen it so long as to require 
an attendant to act as train-bearer. 
The chiefs also wear sometimes a pareu, like that of the Samoans 
and Tongese. High chiefs wear, as an ornament around the neck, a 
single shell of the cypreea aurora, and a valve of a large red spondylus. 
Both of these are highly prized, and handed down from father to son. 
Some wear a collar or necklace of whale’s teeth, fashioned like claws; 
others strings of beads; others of human teeth, torn from the victims 
of their cannibal feasts; others strings of the cypreea moneta, and occa- 
sionally of large shells of the Venus. 
Armlets are also worn, for which purpose the shell of the trochus is 
ground into a ring 
