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(i) TATTOOED HEAD, CARVED BY HONGI. (2) THE TATTOO OF A WOMAN’S CHIN. 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
PERSONAL ORNAMENTS. 
In every age and nation, men have been dissatisfied with 
their natural appearance, and have adopted various ways of 
improving it, which implies a general conviction of natural 
deficiency, and this runs through all grades of society. 
When a greater impression was to be made, man did not 
trust to his natural countenance, but called in the aid of 
various adjuncts. To give the Bishop the venerable look 
becoming his high and sacred office, a wig, almost as large 
and white as the fleece of a lamb, was deemed requisite ; 
this strange idea, however, has passed away ; the good sense 
of the age caused it to be laid aside at the proper time, 
had it been longer persisted in, it would have excited ridicule 
rather than reverence. The bar has not profited by the good 
