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A Specimen Day 
tobacco water. The hair is not kinky, pepper¬ 
corn-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 
perruquerie 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 Tupf-Guarani race, 
which one always associates with the New World. 
The skull-caps of plaited and blackened 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 sur¬ 
mounts the poll. I noticed a fashion of crinal 
decoration quite new to me. 
