Show t ne 1000 on the apger er ivory anklets danklets an klets often very heavy are ara only worn by the ibo women of w wealth eal th and importance but tho the metal danklets anklets worn by others may be many pounds in weight and some of them wear higo brass plates perhaps a foot in diameter which once fixed to the ankles are never removed the men we wear ar a single strip of cotton cloth but those who coma much in cont contact ackwith with the europeans are now learning to wear trousers th their ir weapons ar are a flintlocks flint locks bows and spears the latter both for hurling and thrusting the huts are arc built of mud and matting and are quadrangular in shape the center is an open courtyard at one end of which is the apartment of the head of the house while the wives and family are accommodated in other rooms on tho the right and left of the courtyard there thera is no furniture or ornament and but a few household utensils and weapons all the year round bound |