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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites |
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face-painting of boys before dance to receive heads |
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In front of the Bala morung the young boys are helping each other to put on their war-paint. Carefully they mark the two or three parallel lines on the breast and back with chalk. There are many different designs for the face. Here you see a boy with huge, spectacle-like paintings, there a boy with small spots on the cheeks and two lines running over the forehead. Even the huge shields of buffalo hide are today covered with chalk designs. |
