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peppercorn-like, and crisply woolly, like that of the 
Coast tribes ; in men, as well as in women, it falls in a 
thick curtain, nearly to the shoulders, and it is finer 
than the usual elliptical fuzz. The variety of their per- 
ruquerie can be rivalled only by that of the dress and 
ornament. The males affect plaits, knobs, and horns, 
stiff twists and upright tufts, suddenly projecting some 
two inches from the scalp ; and, that analogies with 
Europe might not be wanting, one gentleman wore a 
queue, zopf, or pigtail, bound at the shoulders, not by a 
ribbon, but by the neck of a claret bottle. Other heads 
are adorned with single feathers, or bunches and circles 
of plumes, especially the red tail-plumes of the parrot 
and the crimson coat of the Touraco (Corythrix), an 
African jay ; these blood-coloured spoils are a sign of 
war. The Brazilian traveller will be surprised to find 
the coronals of feathers, the Kennitare (Acangatara) of 
the Tupi'-Guarani race, which one always associates with 
the New World. The skull-caps of plaited and black- 
ened palm leaf, though common in the interior, are here 
rare ; an imitation is produced by tressing the hair longi- 
tudinally from occiput to sinciput, making the head a 
system of ridges, divided by scalp-lines, and a fan-shaped 
tuft of scarlet-stained palm frond surmounts the poll. 
I noticed a fashion of crinal decoration quite new to me. 
A few hairs, either from the temples, the sides or the 
back of the head, are lengthened with tree-fibres, and 
