Note 10 — Chapter XVIII · GROUND STONE—PROBLEMATICAL FORMS

“Some of the South American natives cut the lobes of their ears, and for a considerable time fastened small weights to them, in order to lengthen them; that others cut holes in their upper and under lips; through the cartilage of the nose, their chins and jaws, and either hung or thrust through them, such things as they most fancied, which also agrees with the ancient customs of our Northern Indians.” History of the American Indians, p. 213; London, 1775.