. Bulletin. Ethnology. /. a, Fire sticks. Fire is produced by drilling one piece of laurel wood into a second. 6, Fire fan. e, Hori- zontal piece is a hair rope worn around the waist by the women and the hairlike vertical piece is made from the moriche palm leaf and dyed red. The two pieces form the women's The serrated ends of the sticks are used to comb the hair in the search for lice which are either crushed between the fingers or between the teeth. The pointed ends are used to crush the blisters raised by various Please note that these images are extracted from scanned p
. Bulletin. Ethnology. /. a, Fire sticks. Fire is produced by drilling one piece of laurel wood into a second. 6, Fire fan. e, Hori- zontal piece is a hair rope worn around the waist by the women and the hairlike vertical piece is made from the moriche palm leaf and dyed red. The two pieces form the women's The serrated ends of the sticks are used to comb the hair in the search for lice which are either crushed between the fingers or between the teeth. The pointed ends are used to crush the blisters raised by various Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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