The cutting and piercing of parts of the body

The cutting and piercing of parts of the body

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

||kabbo (Jantje) (II)

<i>Cutting off the top of the little finger, and piercing ears and nose. (L II.-2. 357-361.)</i> Describing the cutting of the fingertips, hands and arms of male and female children, and the piercing of the nose and ears of adult men and women.

1) p.356v: a note describing which parts of which fingers are cut, 2) This story is found in Book II-2

story

28 July 1871 (started)

Custom and daily life

body (alteration of), body (piercing), body (cutting), body (the parts cut and pierced), finger (cutting tips off), nose (piercing of), ears (piercing of), piercing (of ear), piercing (by males), piercing (by females), piercing (of arm), piercing (of nose), piercing (considered 'handsome'), piercing (and appearance), piercing (of adult men and women), cutting (of finger), cutting (of hand), cutting (of arm), cutting (of male and female children), children (the cutting of parts of their body)

357-361