At the festivals the Miao females look very pretty in their embroidered dresses and their silver thing from Tls, 50 to Tls. 100 adorns s. A kind of hat worth any-
the head, and the delicacy of the workmanship baflles description. The silver hat is decorated with flowers, bells, or anything the silversmith can devise. The earrings are large and heavy, and the weight thereof seriously disfigures the organ they are supposed to decorate. Heavy necklaces may be solid silver, or silver, tubes filled with copper. Other forms of necklace resemble chains, while others look like silver beads.
Large and ponderous bracelets adorn the wrist and forearm and the ornaments on an aboriginal maiden fully dressed in festival attire are worth hundreds of ounces of silver.
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