ABSTRACT
The blue underlip of the women, some tattoo marks here and there, nose rings, and hundreds of tiny braids of hair, all shining and some dripping with castor oil, might seem likely to make these people appear ugly enough to English eyes. The dyed underlip was the greatest drawback; perhaps from its having a look of disease. The women wore silver bracelets almost universally, and a quantity of bead necklaces. They swathed themselves sufficiently in their blue garments without covering their faces. The men wore very little clothing: the children, for the most part none at all, except that the girls had a sort of leather fringe tied round the loins. The field plot is often no more than a portion of the sloping river bank.
