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Show i9oo] INDIAN INDUSTRIES another it was found over the greater part of the United States except along the Pacific coast. NJMost of the plains tribes did not shave the head, but • wore the hair either braided or flowing, but always with the scalp- lock in evidence. v< Che southwestern Indians usually cut the hair straight across the forehead in front and at the shoulders behind. The Indians were fond of bodily ornament both permanent and temporary; of the permanent form . were^ jthe flattened heads and other deformations. Tattooing was much more widely practised among the western tribes than in the east, but it is impossible to say what may have determined its presence or absence in a given group. In the extreme northwest, where it was more elaborate than elsewhere, the designs are often of a totemic or other symbolic character. In many regions, however, the marks are simple lines and dots and evidently purely decorative in purpose. \ Labrets, or studs of bone, ivory, and wood, were worn in the lower lip by the Indians of the northwest coast, and the custom persists in an attenuated form among the Eskimo at the mouth of the Mackenzie River, by whom it was doubtless borrowed from Alaska. r The septum of the nose was pierced by some tribes, notably on the plateaus and the Pacific coast, and pendants of various forms were inserted. vEar ornaments of one form or 1 Dall," On Masks, Labrets, and Certain Aboriginal Customs " ( Bureau of Ethnology, Third Annual Report). * |