Funeral dances are then kept up in memory of the dead for several weeks, at the expiration of which time the body, being sufficiently decomposed, is exhumed.
The bones are cleaned and are deposited in an earthenware jar, and carried to a spot near the town which is regarded as the cemetery.
There is little difficulty in describing the toilette of the native, that of the men being limited to the one covering of the head, the body being entirely nude.

It is curious to observe among these wild savages the consummate vanity displayed in their head-dresses.

Every tribe has a distinct and unchanging fashion for dressing the hair, and so elaborate is the coiffure that hair-dressing is reduced to a science.

European ladies would be startled at the fact that to perfect the coiffure of a man requires a period of from eight to ten years! However tedious the operation, the result is extraordinary.

The Latookas wear most exquisite helmets, all of which are formed of their own hair, and are, of course, fixtures.