The women wear a long full blouse.

Both sexes wear flowers in their ears, which have such large holes bored in them that the stalk can very easily be drawn through.

The women, both old and young, adorn themselves with garlands of leaves and flowers, which they make in the most artistic and elegant manner.

I have often seen men, too, weaving the same kind of ornament.
On grand occasions, they cast over their ordinary dress an upper garment, called a tiputa, the cloth of which they manufacture themselves from the bark of the bread and cocoa trees.

The bark, while still tender, is beaten between two stones, until it is as thin as paper; it is then coloured yellow and brown.
One Sunday I went into the meeting-house to see the people assembled there.