CHAPTER XX

THROUGH  THE  HINTERLAND

CHIEFS AND TKEATIE^—{continued)

There is a great variety in the style of wearing the
wool even amongst the men and boys ; but when it comes
to the women's heads the patterns displayed are ex¬
ceedingly remarkable. I allude now to the ordinary
hairdressing and not to the high coiffure which is
usually only seen amongst the Bundu girls or chiefs'
wives on special occasions. At the town of Morfindor
about four miles from Kanre Lahun I came upon an
extraordinary scene. The women, of whom there were a
great number assembled in the barri, had got the wool
on their heads arranged in the most wonderful manner.
I noticed one had the wool closely cut two inches
above the ears, extending in the form of a crescent
from the forehead to the back of the head, the crown
being a mass of long, heavily grown wool standing up
in a number of little tumbled pod-like bunches; others
had the wool in pyramidal tufts two or three inches
high all over the head.

I observed other women with the wool shaved off
just above the forehead with a plaited edging to  it, the