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their firft entry into the village of the conquero 

 It is to be remarked, that the men take no care to 

 adorn any part but the head. Quite the reverfe 

 happens with the women. They fcarce ufe any 

 dreis on their heads at all ; only they are very 

 jealous of their hair and would think themfelves 

 difhonoured forever, were it to be cut. Thus, 

 when at the death of their relations they cut off 

 part of the hair, they pretend to mew by this act 

 the moft extreme grief they are capable of. In 

 order to preferve this ornament of the head 

 they rub it often with fat, powder it with the bark 

 of a certain tree, and fometimes with vermilion, 

 then wrap it in the fkin of an eel or ferpent, by way 

 of locks, which are plaited in form of a chain, and 

 which hang down to their middle. As to the 

 face, they content themfelves with drawing a few 

 lines on it with vermilion or other colours. 



Their nofmls are never bored, and it is only 

 among fome nations that their ears are fo. When 

 this is the cafe, they infert in them, or hang to 

 them, as well as the men, beads of porcelain. 

 "When they are in their fined drefs they wear robes 

 on which are painted all forts of figures, fmall col- 

 lars of porcelain, without any great order or fym- 

 metry, and a kind of border tolerably well worked 

 with the hair of the porcupine, which they alfo paint 

 with different colours. They adorn in the fame 

 manner their children's cradles, and over the ex- 

 tremity towards the head, they fix ' a femicircle 

 or two of cedar, that they may cover the child 

 without incommoding its head. 



Befides, the care of houlhold affairs and making 

 the neceffary provifion of wood, the women are like- 

 wife alone charged with the culture of the fields ; 



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