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A Specimen Day 
Nothing simpler than the Fa n toilette. Thongs 
and plaits of goat, wild cat, or leopard skin gird 
the waist, and cloth, which is rare, is supplied by 
the spoils of the black monkey or some other 
“ beef.” The main part of the national costume, 
and certainly the most remarkable, is a fan of palm 
frond redolent of grease and ruddled with ochre, 
thrust through the waist belt; while new and stiff 
the upper half stands bolt upright and depends only 
when old. It suggests the “ Enduap ” (rondache) 
of ostrich-plumes worn by the Tupf-Guaram bar¬ 
barians of the Brazil, the bunchy caudal appen¬ 
dages which made the missionaries compare them 
with pigeons. The fore part of the body is here 
decked with a similar fan, the outspread portion 
worn the wrong way, like that behind. The orna¬ 
ments are seed-beads, green or white, and Lo- 
angos (red porcelain). The “ bunch” here con¬ 
tains ioo to 120 strings, and up country 200, worth 
one dollar; each will weigh from one to three, 
and a wealthy Fan may carry fifteen to forty-five 
pounds. The seed-bead was till lately unknown ; 
fifteen to twenty strings make the “bunch.” There 
is not much tattooing amongst the men, except on 
the shoulders, whilst the women prefer the stomach ; 
the gandin , however, disfigures himself with 
powdered cam-wood, mixed with butter-nut, grease, 
or palm oil—a custom evidently derived from the 
coast-tribes. Each has his “ Ndese,” garters and 
