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of the body and a longer garment behind. The men, not in military costume, 
wear an upper garment of tanned skin, and a length of cloth fastened at the 
neck and hanging down behind. Their armlets are of ivory and horn; they 
wear ornaments of slender iron chain, showing good workmanship, and their 
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Underwood & Underwood. 
hair is usually gathered in a chignon which hangs between the shoulders. 
Their ear-lobes are distended with ornaments, for, like other semi-civilized 
tribes, they are loaded with the bulk of attractive things for the edification of 
the opposite sex. In that particular they follow the usual order of birds and 
animals, among which it is the male who is aflame with color and is loaded 
