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PUTTING THE FINISHING TOUCHES TO A COIFFURE IN NATAL |
"BEAUTY" DEARLY BOUGHT |
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| While the Zulus pay comparatively little attention to costume they are very fastidious about their hair, and the women will spend a long time arranging one another's coiffure. Twisted into clay-daubed ringlets, it is worn low down over the eyes and to the nape of the neck, each little rope at the sides and back of the head being finished off with a ring | This heavy disc inserted to distend the lips and, according to the standard of beauty of the Makonde tribe in Kenya, to enhance the facial charm, recalls to mind the old French adage: "One must suffer to be beautiful" |