One trains his long locks till they take the admired form of the buffalo's horns; others prefer to let their hair hang in a thick coil down their backs, like that animal's tail; while another wears it in twisted cords, which, stiffened by fillets of the inner bark of a tree wound spirally round each curl, radiate from the head in all directions.
Some have it hanging all round the shoulders in large masses; others shave it off altogether.

Many shave part of it into ornamental figures, in which the fancy of the barber crops out conspicuously.

About as many dandies run to seed among the blacks as among the whites.

The Man ganja adorn their bodies extravagantly, wearing rings on their fingers and thumbs, besides throatlets, bracelets, and anklets of brass, copper, or iron.

But the most wonderful of ornaments, if such it may be called, is the pelele, or upper-lip ring of the women.