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Title: In wildest Africa : the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: MacQueen, Peter, 1865-1924
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Publisher: London : George Ball and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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skins. They do a greatdeal of the manual labour of East Africa and havethe most hopeful future. The simple native girls of Central Africa resembletheir sisters of more civilized lands in their desireto heighten their personal charms. Our Americanbelles adore dimples, and it is said that their dimplesare sometimes artificially made. They adorn theirwhite faces with black patches of court plaster, andalso comb their hair in outlandish shapes. The same effort to beautify oneself goes onthroughout Africa, save that the standards of beautyare different. Among the Banyoro, who live northof Uganda, the women knock out the six front teethof the lower jaw and the young men do the same.The Jaluo women have a similar custom. On thesouth side of Victoria Nyanza there are tribes wherethe women file their teeth sharp like a saw. and theBuvumas knock out two of the incisors, the pricefor such an operation being four cowry shells or afraction of a cent. Most of the African women scar their bodies as
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Photograph by Peter Dutkewich, c •pyright, imc.t. by Inderwood & Underwood, X. Y DANCE OF YOUNG MEN OF THE KIKUYU TRIBE IN HONOUR OF THEIRCOMING OF AGE. Some Tribes and Customs 155 a means of adornment. I have seen girls with Per-sian shawl patterns on their breasts, and others withgreat welts on their foreheads and cheeks. The lat-ter marks also indicate the tribes to which they be-long. In the Sudan there are scores of such tribalmarks, and each tribe has its own way of scarring.Mutilation of the ears is common throughout Cen-tral Africa. The Swahilis enlarge the holes in thelobes until they become mere straps which will in-close a glass tumbler. The women have holes allaround the rims of their ears, which they fill withrolls of paper and pieces of wood. In German East Africa it is the custom in somelocalities to wear great rings and plugs in both theupper and the lower lip. Such ornaments elongatethe upper lip so that it extends several inches outover the mouth. The result is

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