Identifier: opencourt_nov1918caru (find matches)
Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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hich v/as six and a halfinches in diameter and weighed nearly three pounds. Ornamentsof this weight are by no means uncommon and necessitate thewearers throwing the lobes of their ears over the shoulders whengoing about their daily tasks. The Rev. G. Brown saw a man inMelanesia wdio had one ear fitted with a clock, the clock itselfbeing thirteen inches in diameter. In Borneo lads have holes punched 672 THE OPEN COURT. through the tops of their ears. The youth stands against a tree orpost, the hole being punched out by means of a cylinder of bamboo.Another widespread custom is to thrust sticks or pieces of bonethrough holes which have been made in the base of the nose, insome cases completely closing up the nostrils. This is apparentlydone for superstitious reasons, because these sticks are not alwaysworn. When a man believes he is in danger of any kind, he willthrust them through his nose, thus avoiding the danger that mightotherwise befall him. Major Powell-Cotton says it is a common
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Fig. 12. UPOTO. KELOIDS ON Fig. 13. BOPOTO TRIBE, SHOW-FACE AND CHEST. ING COIFFURE.Upper Congo tribes. (Photos by the Rev. W. Forfeitt. By permission of the Baptist Missionary Societ).) practice in Central Africa, for natives to cover their mouths andnostrils with their hands to keep evil spirits from entering (Fig. 11). The Papuans of New Guinea have a different method of wear-ing nose-sticks. In their case, a stick is thrust through a hole madein the septum of the nose, which is by this means completely blocked.One dandy wore in his nose the two legs of a pig, each bone beingseven inches long and three quarters of an inch thick. In Africa and Australia, raised gashes or keloids are made SAVAGE LIFE AND CUSTOM. 673 on various parts of the body, chiefly on the face and chest. In someinstances, as with the Congo tribes, the whole face is one mass ofthis cicatrization (see Figs. 12 and 13). The Balolo have lumps offlesh as large as pigeon eggs protruding from each temple, abovethe base

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