. The Victoria Nyanza; the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects . Fig. 211.—Rim; for the Arm.(One-third natural size, III. E., 5561) Fig. 212.—Ivory Cuff,Nera. (One-third naturalsize, III. E., 5596.) USSUKUMA ts: ranging their hair, and everybody is at liberty to suithis own fancy. Most commonly the custom ., r The Hair. prevausoi twining small curlsof hair into finestrings, which areoften wound roundwith bast, and standin an ugly uprightposition. The hairis dripping withgrease, and hangsdown over thebrow and the face,and makes the manlook like an idiot(cf.

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. The Victoria Nyanza; the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects . Fig. 211.—Rim; for the Arm.(One-third natural size, III. E., 5561) Fig. 212.—Ivory Cuff,Nera. (One-third naturalsize, III. E., 5596.) USSUKUMA ts: ranging their hair, and everybody is at liberty to suithis own fancy. Most commonly the custom ., r The Hair. prevausoi twining small curlsof hair into finestrings, which areoften wound roundwith bast, and standin an ugly uprightposition. The hairis dripping withgrease, and hangsdown over thebrow and the face,and makes the manlook like an idiot(cf. Fig. 189). Tattooinos andbadges of race arecommon Tattooing,in Ussu- kuma. Breast and back are marked with a great variety of ornamental scars, and the face, too, exhibits a great variety of marks (Figs. 215 to 218). The women, too, are tattooed with broad vertical rows of ornamental scars, which form parallel lines towards within and triangles on the outside (Figs. 219 and 220).. y-- Fin. 213.—Sultan Makongolo of Mian/a. 154 VICTORIA NYANZA Circumcision is not practised ; the ear-lobes are broad-ened out, and from the front-teeth of the lower andupper jaw triangles are struck out.

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