Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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and cut in afringe across the forehead: gor-geous plumes and coronets of red.blue, and yellow feathers are wornby the men on festal occasions(fig. 258). Necklaces and otherornaments are made of jaguarsteeth and claws, seeds, wing-casesof beetles, beads, &c. The upperedge and lobe of the eai, as wellas the septum of the nose, is oftenperforated to receive feathers andother ornaments, and many tribeswear a thorn or a peg of metal,stone, or other material in thelower lip. Some of the moreprimitive eastern tribes wore largewooden plugs, like those known in East Africa, not only in the ear-lobe but in the lips as well(fig. 259. 4-7); the name Botocudo is derived from the Portu-guese word ljolo(/i(e, a plug. Tribes on the upper Tocintins andAraguaya Rivers are in the habit of distending the ear-lobe tillit hangs down to the shoulders. Tatuing by i)uncture is freelypractised by many tribes, especially the Mundrucu, the instrumentsused being thorns, or the sharp ribs of palm-leaves. Women
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Fio. 260.—Board set with stonocliij)s for grating cassavii. BritishGuiana. 280 AMERICA are more usually tatued than men, and the faces of some of thewomen of the central tribes are covered with elaborate i>atterns.Painting of the body, usually with such vegetable substances asthe juice of the hoia fruit ((/enija canito), is common in the northernpart of the region.

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