. Man and beast in eastern Ethiopia : From observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan . Natural history; Indigenous peoples; Ethnology. X ORNAMENTS FOR THE EARS AND LIPS 127 bored tlirough his ear "with an tuil " (Exoilus xxi. 6). Ear-marking is a very old euRtom. Lip Oriiaineiits or Ijcihrcts.—Some African trilies, espeeially those living in the Nile Valley, follow the praetice of decorating the npper or the lower lip Ijy piercing it and snhsecjuently dilating the liole nntil it will accommodate a plug of wood in some instances as large as that used l)y the Masa
. Man and beast in eastern Ethiopia : From observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan . Natural history; Indigenous peoples; Ethnology. X ORNAMENTS FOR THE EARS AND LIPS 127 bored tlirough his ear "with an tuil " (Exoilus xxi. 6). Ear-marking is a very old euRtom. Lip Oriiaineiits or Ijcihrcts.—Some African trilies, espeeially those living in the Nile Valley, follow the praetice of decorating the npper or the lower lip Ijy piercing it and snhsecjuently dilating the liole nntil it will accommodate a plug of wood in some instances as large as that used l)y the Masai and Wa-lvikuyu for their ears. Several African travellers have drawn attention to this fashion, especially Schweinfurth in liis. A native of the Jlakomle plateau with a lahret and ear pings. (From Wefile's Native Life in Enat Afrira.) description of the Bongo and Mittoo women (1873) and more recently by Weule, who observed it among the tribes inhabiting the Makonde plateau and the sur- rounding Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936. London : Macmillan and Co. , Limited
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