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The remaining articles of personal adornment exhibit few differences. Girls and women who have not yet had more than one child, wear
MAN FROM THE XXII MUKIMS WITH HIS WIFE.
armlets and anklets (gleuëng jaròë and gaki) made of suasa, which are forged on to their limbs; also chain bracelets of silver or suasa on their arms (talòë jaròë). On their necks they have metal collars, the separate portions of which closely resemble the almost circular bòh ru on the four corners of the betel-leaf kerchief, and necklaces hanging down over the breast (srapi) composed of small diamond-shaped gold plates. In their ears they wear large subangs (earrings) of gold or of buffalo-horn with a little piece of gold in the centre, by the weight of which the holes pierced in the ears are gradually widened to the
