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Captain Cook’s Journal During the First Voyage Round the World

CHAPTER 3
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This every man wears always without exception, and it is no uncommon thing to see many of the better sort have nothing else on, as it is reckoned no shame for any part of the body to be exposed to View, except those which all mankind hide.
Both sexes sometimes shade their faces from the Sun with little Bonnets made of Cocoa-Nut leaves.

Some have them of fine Matting, but this is less common.

They sometimes wear Turbands, but their Chief Headdress is what they call Tomou, which is human Hair plaited scarce thicker than common thread.

Of this I can safely affirm that I have seen pieces near a mile in length worked upon one end without a Knott.

These are made and worn only by the women, 5 or 6 such pieces of which they will sometimes wind round their Heads, the effect of which, if done with taste, is very becoming.


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