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are adorned with glass beads and a profusion of neatly plaited 
straw bands. The covering of the married women is of the most 
slender description^ and consists of a plaited wisp of straw of the 
strictest economical dimensions^, and is drawn up between the legs 
and attached to a slender waist-belt ; this also sustains at the back 
a bunch of green leaves^ about the size and shape of the tail of an 
ostrich^ which gives the wearer a jaunty appearance. Small circular 
iron skull-plates^ liigWy polished^ are favourite ornaments with the 
men. They vary in size from two to three inches in diameter^ and 
