310 
SEXUAL selection: max. 
Pari II. 
“ culpable indifference towards her 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 
oild 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 39 deem a much flattened head “ an essential 
“ point of beauty.” 
Ihe 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 .” 40 
In Forth ern 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 the 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 41 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 Sebi- 
tuani tried in vain to alter this fashion. In various parts 
oi A Inca and in the Malay Archipelago the natives file 
t ic incisor teeth into points like those of a saw, or pierce 
them with. holes, into which they insert studs. 
" Qno * e * b - v Priohar 'b ‘Hive. Hist, of Mankind,’ 4th edit. vol. i. 
1851, p. 321. 
" °;i th f ^puans, Wallace, ‘The Malay Archipelago,’ vol. ii. p. 
415. On the coiffure of the Africans, Sir S. Baker, ‘The Albert 
jn yanza,’ vol. l. p. 210. 
41 ‘ Travels, p. 533. 
