DRESS OF THE NATIVES, 
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regardless of dress as their forefathers. A few strings 
of beads, and a scanty waist cloth, is their only dress, 
either of useful or ornamental. The hair of the females 
is shaven in various fashions, sometimes including half 
of the head, or in others leaving merely a tuft at the 
top. 
Their faces are generally besmeared with yellowish 
clay, which gives them an unseemly appearance. The 
children, when young, are carried on the backs of the 
mothers in a semi-circular box, which is suspended 
from the shoulders. 
