The tin pelele is often made in the form of a small dish.

The ivory one is not unlike a napkin-ring.

No woman ever appears in public without the pelele, except in times of mourning for the dead.

It is frightfully ugly to see the upper lip projecting two inches beyond the tip of the nose.

When an old wearer of a hollow bamboo ring smiles, by the action of the muscles of the cheeks, the ring and lip outside it are dragged back and thrown above the eyebrows.