Note 369 — VII
Philip Askell Benton translation
Polko, loc. cit., p. 136. The way of dressing women’s hair usual at the present day had already come into fashion in Nachtigal’s time. The hair is twisted with the help of butter into countless little plaits, which radiate from the crown and lie flat on the head, being frayed out at the tips. This produces a thick crown of hair, which when seen from in front reminds one of the coiffure of European ladies. The hair is often thickly powdered with pulverized cinnamon, so that it has a chestnut-brown tint. [Cf. illustrations of p. 238 and p. 250 of Macleod, Chiefs and Cities of Central Africa; and for Kanembu hair-dressing and hair-ornaments, idem, p. 240.]