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Title: The history of mankind
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ratzel, Friedrich, 1844-1904 Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910
Subjects: Ethnology Anthropology
Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., ltd. New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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for ornament—cowries, dentalium, and other shells,cachalots teeth, iron and copper rings, coins witha hole through them. Silver and gold currencieshave grown up in the same way ; but among thebarbarous races of the older world, only theAmericans seem to have appreciated the value ofgold. It was left for Europeans to discover thegreat stores of this metal in Australia, California,and Africa. To this day, in the districts ofFamaka and Fadasi, although almost everytorrent brings down gold, it plays no part innative ornament or trade. Lastly, we may reflect how eloquent for asavage is the silent language of bodily mutilationand disfigurement. As Theophile Gautier says : Having no clothes to embroider, they embroidertheir skins. Tattooing serves for a tribalor family mark ; it often indicates victoriouscampaigns, or announces a lads arrival atmanhood, and so also do various mutila-tions of teeth and artificial scars. Radiatingor parallel lines of scars on cheek or breast,such as the Aust

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