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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.
we find, in our most elevated classes, that which seems so strange in savages.
The head of hair offers the same considerations. With savages as with us, it is an object of no less special care. Negroes, Hottentots, Polynesians, etc., stiffen their hair with grease, and color it with powders
Fig. 10.
Fijian Modes of dressing the Hair.
red, yellow, white, etc. (Fig. 10.) Everywhere they decorate it with flowers, feathers of all sorts, brilliant crystals, grains of glass. Well, our fathers pomaded and powdered themselves; our women pomade themselves, and put flowers, feathers, and diamonds, in their
