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up the thigh ; and fcarcely any of them are without mitt'ens i 77 s. 
for the hands, made of the lkins of bears paws. Thpfe , May<l 
who wear any thing on their heads, refembled, in this re- 
fpecl, our friends at Nootka; having high truncated conic 
Caps, made of ftraw, and fometimes of wood, refembling a 
leafs head well painted. 
The men commonly wear the hair cropt round the neck 
and forehead; but the women allow it to grow long; and 
moft of them tie a fmall lock of it on the crown; or a few 
club it behind, after our manner. Both fexes have the ears 
perforated with feveral holes, about the outer and lower 
part of the edge, in which they hang little bunches of beads, 
made of the fame tubulous fhelly fubftance ufed for this 
purpofe by thofe of Nootka. The feptum of the nofe is alfo 
perforated; through which they frequently thruft the quill- 
feathers of fmall birds, or little bending ornaments, made of 
the above fhelly fubftance, ftrung on a ftiff fixing or cord, 
three or four inches long, which give them a truly gro- 
tefque appearance. But the moft uncommon and unfightly 
ornamental fafhion, adopted by fome of both fexes, is their 
having the under-lip flit, or cut, quite through, in the di¬ 
rection of the mouth, a little below the fwelling part. This 
incilion, which is made even in the fucking children, is 
often above two inches long; and either by its natural re¬ 
traction, when the wound is frefh, or by the repetition of 
fome artificial management, afiumes the true fhape of lips, 
and becomes fo large as to admit the tongue through. This 
happened to be the cafe, when the firft perfon having this 
incilion was feen by one of the feamen, who called out, that 
the man had two mouths; and, indeed, it does not look un¬ 
like it. In this artificial mouth they flick a flat, narrow or¬ 
nament, made chiefly out of a folid fhell or bone, cut into 
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