tf the iflhmus of America. 115 



weight and long ufe, efpecially in Elder 

 Women, it brings down to the Mouth. 



Both Men and Women, at folemn Meals 

 or Feafts, when they wear their larger 

 Plates or Rings, take them out and lay 

 them afide till they have done Eating 5 when 

 rubbing them very clean and bright, they 

 put them in again- At other times when 

 they eat or drink, they content therafelves 

 with lifting up with the left Hand, if need 

 be, the fmall Plates or Rings they then 

 wear, (and the Womens Rings are feldoffi 

 fo fmall but thev lie upon the Lips ) while 

 they ufe their Right in taking up the Cup 

 or feeding themfeives. And by the way, 

 they always make the chief ufe of their 

 Right Hands : And I never perceiv'd ^ A.^ 

 Left-handed Perfon among them. Neither chen^Lefe 

 the Plates nor Rings hinder much their Handed. 

 Speaking, tho s they lie bobbing upon their 

 Lips. 



The King or Chief, and fome few of the Ear-pen- 

 great ones, at extraordinary times, wear in daws* 

 each Ear, faftned to a Ring there, two 

 large Gold Plates, one hanging before to the 

 Breaft, and the other behind on the Shoul- 

 der. They are about a Span long, of an 

 Heart faftiion (as that is commonly painted) 

 with the Point downward 5 having on the 

 tipper part a narrow Plate or Label, about 

 three or four Inches long, by a hole in 

 which it hangs to the Ring in the Ear. 



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