. The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea : with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago. Marchesa (Schooner yacht); Natural history; Natural history. 38 THE LIU-KtU ISLANDS. [chap. and twisted or plaited into a knot over the bald spot, which, how- ever, it only partially conceals. It is apparently dressed with some cosmetic after the custom of the Japanese, and is then transiixed by two hair-pins—the Inmasashi and iisisasM. The former is about four inches long, with a depression in the centre of the pin to prevent its falling out, and with t
. The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea : with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago. Marchesa (Schooner yacht); Natural history; Natural history. 38 THE LIU-KtU ISLANDS. [chap. and twisted or plaited into a knot over the bald spot, which, how- ever, it only partially conceals. It is apparently dressed with some cosmetic after the custom of the Japanese, and is then transiixed by two hair-pins—the Inmasashi and iisisasM. The former is about four inches long, with a depression in the centre of the pin to prevent its falling out, and with the head expanded into the repre- sentation of a lotus flower. The other is two or three inches longer, and in shape exactly reseml^les a marrow spoon. At ten years of. Liu-Kiu HAIR-PINS {KamasasM and woman's Usisashi). age the boys are permitted to assume the iisisashi, but the knmasashi is not worn until the age of puberty. The metal of which they are composed varies with the rank of the wearer. The lower classes have them of brass or pewter, and the literati and higher officials either of silver or gold, according to their position. No one, we were informed, would be permitted to wear the pin of a rank to which he did not belong. The women dress their hair much in the same way, but the top knot is rather larger, and is placed slightly to the right side. They use wooden or horn pins, one of which resembles the vsisashi, but is much larger. It is hexagonal, and is in many cases constructed of alternate pieces of black and transparent horn, neatly joined by glue. The bowl at the end is as large as that of a salt-spoon, and must, one would imagine, be intended for some special use, though what it was I was unable to discover. In most countries in which tattooing is practised the men are generally far more decorated than the women, but in the Liu-kius. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - col
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