Page:A description of Greenland.djvu/174

132 very well. Their Shoes and Boots, with little Difference, are like thoe of the Men. Their Hair, which is very long and thick, is braided and tied up in a Knot, which becomes them well. They commonly go as well without as within Doors; nor are they covered with Hoods, but in cae it rains or nows. Their chief Ornaments and Finery is to wear Glas Beads of divere Colours, or Corals about the Neck and Arms, and Pendants in their Ears. They alo wear Bracelets, made of black Skin, et with Pearls, with which they alo trim their Clothes and Shoes.

The Greenland Sex have, beides this, another ort of Embellihment, viz. they make long black Strokes between the Eyes on the Forehead, upon the Chin, Arms, and Hands, and even upon the Thighs and Legs; thee they make with a Needle and Thread made black. And though this to others eems a wrong way of embellihing, yet they think it very handome and ornamental. And they ay, that thoe who do not thus deform their Faces, their Heads hall