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Widow in Full Mourning The breast is covered with black bead, {seeds of an unidentified plant); she wears a necklace of balls from her husband's hair, another of rope, yet another of his calico, and, on top of all, the jaw-bone. Her head is completely shaved and her face blackened [Ch. VI, 3]