Last Rambles Amongst the Indians of the Rocky Mountains And the Andes

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The ornament of the lip is a mode belonging chiefly to the women, though there are some ec centric men who also practise it. And of the women, it is but a portion of them who perforate the lip, and even by them it is only on particular (a) A block worn by a child of three or four years' old.
(b) A block worn at the age of seven or eight years.
(c) A block worn by a young woman at maturity.
(d) A block worn by the men only, in the cartilage of the ear.
occasions that they wear the blocks, to be
...seen, as they term it, in full dress. When eating and sleep ing the blocks are removed, and also when much Lip-blocks. 139 use of their tongues is required ;~for, with the block' in the mouth there are many words not pronounced.
In Plate (No. 10), I have given the exact dimen sions and shapes of three blocks for the lip and one for the ear, which I procured of the people whilst amongst them.
The perforation for the block in the lip is made at a very early age, and is kept open through life, and is scarcely perceptible when the block is out.


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