Pietro della Valle obferved the Arabians had likewife adopted this
cuftom. The women o f the Bedouins o f the defarts about Tunis
and Tremefen punftured their lips according to the teftimony of
Boullaye le G ouz. T h e Arabian women in Paleftine ufed the
fame cuftom as D Arvieux and de la Roque have obferved. Befides
thefe black carved fcrolls on the faces of the N ew -Zeelanders, we
frequently obferved perpendicular deep furrows marked on their
foreheads ; thefe however were cut in the phrenzy o f their grief,
with a fharp thell, for' the Iofs o f a friend or near relation. The
O-Taheitean women wound the crown o f the head under the hair
with a lhark’s tooth, to prove the fincerity o f their grief: and the
antient Huns wounded their cheeks on all occafions, where they
wanted to teftify their grief for the lofs o f a great man' or a
relation. *
T h e inhabitants of Tanna have on their arms and bellies elevated
fears, repretenting plants, .flowers, liars and various other figures.
They are made by firlt cutting the lkin with a lharp bamboo reed,
and then applying a certain plant to the wound which raifes the
•fear above the reft o f the lkin. Th e inhabitants o f Tayovan or
Formofa f by a very painful operation exprefs on their naked Ikins
various figures o f trees, flowers and animals. Th e great men in
Guinea
Agathias lib. v . Menander Protector, 1. viii. And -Sidonius in Panegyrico ad Avitum.
^ Relation ofCandidius,
Guinea' have their lkin .flowered like damalk. * And in Deean the
women likewife have flowers cut into their flelh on the forehead,
the arms and the breaft, and the elevated fears are painted in colours,
and exhibit the appearance o f flowered damalk. -f-
T h e inhabitants of' Mallicollo and Tanna, wore a cylindrical
Hone in the Septum narium; and the lame part was found perforated
in the natives o f New Holland, by Mr. Banks and Capt.
Cook, ^ but inftead o f a Imall ftone, a bone of a bird five or fix
inches long, and nearly as thick as a man’s finger, was thruft into
the hole, and Dampjer obferved likewife in the men o f New
Britain fuch long fticks thruft into the hole o f the griftle between
the noftrils. § In the Friendly ifles' the natives had two holes made
into the lap o f their ears, and they wore a Imall ftick ftuck in thefe
two holes:; the fame with a long ftick were likewile found in the
ears o f the inhabitants o f the Ifle o f Garret Dennis, near the Coaft
o fN ew G u in e a . || The people o f Tanna, Irromanga, and Mai-
licollo wore large ear-rings o f turtle Ihell of more than an inch in
diameter, and three quarters-of an inch broad. On their arms we
obferved
* Prévôt Hiftoire des Voyages, tom, i,
-j- Tavernier’s Voyage,
} Hawkefworth, vol. iii. p . 575.
§ Dampier’s Voyage, vol. iii, p, 203, and 205,
II Dampier ibidem.
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