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Show oris of New Zealand press their noses together when they meet, and in Melanesia it is the custom to put your nose close to the other person's and to sniff. 1 Life Story of Kiss . The kiss developed out of the primitive habit of rubbing noses with a man who was your equal in the social scale. If you met a superior, then you rubbed his face with your nose. In time, it became the custom for two persons who were greeting each other to touch lips instead of noses. And years later the kiss lost its ceremonial importance and became an affectionate gesture between be-tween two friends or lovers. But many races still retain nose-rubbing nose-rubbing as a salutation. The Ma- |