Note 35 — Chapter XIV · —(Continued).
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The Ta-bla is so called because tied to the head. Some fetisheers, especially women, wear, perched upon the tops of their polls, and lashed on, the cranium not being able to get into the coiffure, ridiculous little steeple hats of straw, with the broadest brims, and the thinnest possible steeples.