Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; (1908) (14747177236)

Women from New Ireland, showing costume, ornament, and scarification

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Title: Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence;

Year: 1908 (1900s)

Authors: Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868-

Subjects: Women

Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Cassell and Company, limited

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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ght flowers and leavesmade into necklets or girdles are not un-common, but seem to be Floral enioved more by the men Ornaments. - than the women, and the tucking of sv\-eet-smelling flowers or leavesinto waist-belts or armlets is almost ex-clusively a masculine fashion. But thewhole question of ornament is bound up with The lower canines of a boar are removed,and the upper pair, having nothing to biteagainst, grow into an almost completecircle, sometimes entering the upper jawagain. These ornaments are highly prized,and in parts are the exclusive property ofthe men ; but where pigs are plentiful, as inthe New Hebrides, they may be seen onwomen as well, the ivory showing up finelyagainst their dark skins. A fashionable ornament for women inNew Britain consists of human ribs hunground the neck, and the New Britain womensometimes wear bone or wooden spikes inthe wings of the nose, projecting like tusks oneither side. IMore picturesque and morevaluable is the necklace of cuscus teeth worn

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12 90 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS by women of the Gazelle Peninsula (p. 88).Fifty of these teeth are worth a fathomof dewarra or shell money (about two shil-lings), and the necklace contains a thousandteeth. The women only wear them untilenough have been collected to make thecollar which forms the most prized orna-ment of the New Britain men, and anindication of their wealth andposition. The shell beads which pre-ceded the glass beads of civili-sation were the product of greatskill and patient labour. Firstthe piece of shell had to bechipped down to the requiredsize for the disc, an operationinvolving a vast amount oftime ; then the holes had to bebored either by means of a drillwith a sharp tip of obsidian, orby repeated tapping. The discswere then strung on a thread offibre and all ground togetherto a uniform size, shape, andsmoothness of edge. A specialvariety made in San Cristovalconsisted of discs, one-sixteenthof an inch in diameter, fifty tothe inch. This was used formoney as well as

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