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culpable indifference towards ber children, if she did 
not employ artificial means to shape the calf of the leg 
after the fashion of the country.” In the Old and New 
World the shape of the skull was formerly modified 
during infancy in the most extraordinary manner, as is 
still the case in many places, and such deformities are 
considered ornamental. For instance, the savages of 
Colombia deem a much flattened head an essential 
point of beauty.” 
The hair is treated with especial care in various 
countries ; it is allowed to grow to full length, so as to 
reach to the ground, or is combed into a compact 
‘‘ frizzled mop, which is the Papuan’s pride and glory.” 
In Northern Africa a man requires a period of from 
eight to ten years to perfect his coiffure.” With other 
nations the head is shaved, and in parts of South Ame- 
rica and Africa even tlie eyebrows are eradicated. The 
natives of the Upper Nile knock out the four front 
teeth, saying that they do not wish to resemble brutes. 
Further south, the Batokas knock out the two upper 
incisors, which, as Livingstone^^ remarks, gives the face 
a hideous appearance, owing to the growth of the lower 
jaw ; but these people think the presence of the incisors 
most unsightly, and on beholding some Europeans, cried 
out, Look at the great teeth ! ” The great chief SebU 
tuani tried in vain to alter tliis fashion. In various parts 
of Africa and in the Malay Archipelago the natives file 
the incisor teeth into points like those of a saw, or pierce 
them with holes, into which they insert studs. 
Quoted by Prichard, ‘Phys. Hist, of Mankind/ 4tli edit. vol. i. 
1851, p. 321. 
On the Papuans, Wallace, ‘ The Malay Archipelago/ vol. ii. p. 
445. On the coiffure of the Africans, Sir S. Baker, ‘ The Albert 
N’yanza,’ vol. i. p. 210. 
‘ Travels, p. 533. 
