Man and beast in eastern Ethiopia : from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan (1911)
Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936, Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936, inscriber. DSI, Nebb, C.H.S., former owner. DSI, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 143
h his ear “ with an aul ” (Exodus xxi. 6). Ear-marking is a very old custom. Lip Ornaments or Lahrets. — Some African tribes, especially those living in the Nile Valley, follow the practice of decorating the upper or the lower lip by piercing it and subsequently dilating the hole until it will… … A native of the Makonde plateau with a ' labret and ear plugs. (From Wefde’s Native Life in East Africa.) description of the Bongo and Mittoo women (1873) and more recently by Weiile, who observed it among the tribes inhabiting the Makonde plateau and the sur¬ rounding country.
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