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of any laws wliicli would forbid it. Emin says that he has seen 
scars and cuts used as ornaments, but only by women in the south- 
western districts, and. I believe that this custom is not indigenous, 
but due to the imitation of their neighbours. 
The Wanyoro tribal marks are two parallel burns on each temple. 
Some of the people wear earrings, but they are not very frequently 
seen. The four lower incisor teeth are extracted at puberty. 
Dress . — The children in Unyoro are unclothed; the adults are 
variously clad ; sometimes the women wear three or four folds of 
cloth made from the bark of the hg-tree suspended round their hips 
reaching to the knee ; at other times they are clad in well-tanned 
goat-skins, or again a large bark-cloth is worn tightly fastened under 
the armpits. Some of the women wear in addition a cloak of the 
same material fastened round the neck and falling gracefully over 
the shoulders, much in the fashion of an Inverness cape. The men 
wear either tanned hide or bark-cloth ; these are usually fastened 
over the right shoulder, the left being exposed. Head-dresses are 
rarely, if ever used. 
Ornaments . — Some of the men wear rings round the ankles and 
wrists, and sometimes necklaces of beads or brass and copper rings. 
Sometimes, but usually only on festive occasions, they wear head- 
dresses manufactured out of the skins of wild animals, goats, 
antelopes, or leopards, and sometimes adorned with a variety of 
horns. The women are very fond of bead, iron, and copper orna- 
ments ; they often wear a series of anklets extending over two- 
thirds of the leg, and the arms may be covered with the same from 
the wrist to the elbow. Sometimes these rings are passed through 
three leather strips to keep them in position. The beadwork neck- 
laces, cinctures, and bracelets are sometimes very tastefully made, and 
some of the ornarAents constructed out of finely plaited grass, to 
which are suspended numerous bosses covered with fine beadwork, 
show considerable manipulative skill in their manufacture and taste 
in the arrangement of the colours. When on the warpath the men 
wear a simple loin-cloth and a strip of bark-cloth or banana leaf 
round the forehead. Some of the people disdain ornaments; at any 
rate I once sent a princess a present of some beadwork earrings and 
necklaces, and she refused to wear them, saying that she did not 
need to add to her charms. 
