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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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(From 96 THE HISTORY OF MAXKIXD as among the Fans and some of the Congo tribes, by the attachment of stringsof jingling bells. Even more grotesque combinations of concealment and parademay be observed ; especially where there is a religious motive for the former. The style and completeness of the clothing naturally depends in great measureupon the extent to which Nature or labour has provided material. All countriesare not so benevolently furnished in this respect as tropical Brazil, where the
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Village chief of the Loango coast, with wife and dignitary. (From a photograph by Dr. Falkenstein.) shirt-tree, a kind of Lecythis, grows with its pliant and easily-stripped bark.The Indians cut up the stem into lengths of 4 or 5 feet, strip the bark off, soakand beat it soft, cut two armholes, and the shirt is ready. In the same forestsgrows a palm, the spathe of which provides a convenient cap without furtherpreparation. The fig-leaf of Paradise recurs in a thousand variations, andcelebrates its revival by appearing in manifold forms, even to the universalrush-cloak. The use of bark as a clothing material is, or was, widely spread from Polynesiato the west coast of Africa. It recurs in America, and thus is found in all lands CLOTHING AND ORNAMENT 97 within the tropics ; and besides this, the bast or inner bark of the lime was usedfor a similar purpose in old days by Germanic tribes. The laws of Manuprescribe to the Brahman who purposes to end his days in religious meditationamid the

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