Note 68 — Chapter V · MORE OF CENTRAL JAVA

The Javanese do not kiss in the disgusting, unwholesome, western fashion; they smell or sniff, using the olfactory instead of the osculatory organs, as sufficiently indicated by the words of the native vocabulary describing the operation referred to. In this matter again, the Hindu immigrants may have made their influence felt. Cf. Professor E. Washburn Hopkins’ interesting paper on The Sniff-Kiss in Ancient India, in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. xxviii., first half, 1907.