. Bulletin. Ethnology. 270 SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS [ Bull. 143 DRESS AND ORNAMENTS Women wear a wrap-around skirt; men, a loincloth held in place with a string. On occasion men also wear broad glass-bead girdles, crossed sashes of glass beads on their chest, necklaces of teeth or silver beads, silver earplugs (fig. 62, c), ear pendants, and sometimes silver cuffs and headbands. Silver nose ornaments are only occasionally worn now, though once they were common adornment of the men. Women wear necklaces of teeth but few or no silver ornaments. Both sexes wear flowers in their hair on festiv
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 270 SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS [ Bull. 143 DRESS AND ORNAMENTS Women wear a wrap-around skirt; men, a loincloth held in place with a string. On occasion men also wear broad glass-bead girdles, crossed sashes of glass beads on their chest, necklaces of teeth or silver beads, silver earplugs (fig. 62, c), ear pendants, and sometimes silver cuffs and headbands. Silver nose ornaments are only occasionally worn now, though once they were common adornment of the men. Women wear necklaces of teeth but few or no silver ornaments. Both sexes wear flowers in their hair on festive occasions and frequently paint themselves with solid colors (fig. 62, a) or with red and dark blue designs applied with a 3- or 4-tined wooden fork (fig. 62, b) and with carved wooden. 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 Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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