. The Victoria Nyanza; the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects . n cylindrical rollsmade of banana leaves, and thus brought to market(Fig. 96). Tattooing and other mechanical disfigurements of the body are never met with in Kisiba. The hair of the head is sometimes quite shaved off, sometimes allowed to grow. It is a noteworthy fact that one very often finds oldish men with well-developed beards. The Wassiba wear a somewhat tasteful costume, con-sisting of a quantity of leaves of the Raphia palm orthe banana worn round the hips. Besides this, Clothing. .,
. The Victoria Nyanza; the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects . n cylindrical rollsmade of banana leaves, and thus brought to market(Fig. 96). Tattooing and other mechanical disfigurements of the body are never met with in Kisiba. The hair of the head is sometimes quite shaved off, sometimes allowed to grow. It is a noteworthy fact that one very often finds oldish men with well-developed beards. The Wassiba wear a somewhat tasteful costume, con-sisting of a quantity of leaves of the Raphia palm orthe banana worn round the hips. Besides this, Clothing. ., . , similar garments are sometimes put round theneck like tippets or over the breast like scarves. In size,these clothes differ according as they are for children or KISIBA 81 adults. They first make a girdle of bast, and weave inthe long strips in such a way that the two ends fall downuniformly over the legs, fully covering them, and descend-ing below the knees. From the fact that this mass of bast strips yields toevery motion of thebody, a garment ofthis kind looksreally well. The better-class.
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