The use of armlets of skin decorated with shells or quills is suggested by the incisions on the arms of the costumed human figure made of antler shown in Fig.
Imitations of wristlets, armlets and anklets were also painted on the body.
Their clothing and helmets are of a frequently recurring type, while both of them weararmlets and one of them wears a plain bracelet on his left wrist.
XV) wear a bracelet on either wrist and two armlets on their sinewy arms, while a necklace encircles their bull-like necks.
Not only werearmlets and bracelets in requisition, but also necklaces, ear-rings, and trinkets.
With his body they buried the dead chief's spear, and axe, and his gold armlets and shield, for these people believed that the dead would live again, and would need their weapons in the other world.
They built many stone villages and temples, and made armlets of gold, as Modor had done, and sewed plates of it to their belts, and ornamented the handles of their spears and knives with it.
The armlets and necklace were assumed to identify her; and such was the dread the common people had of a dead body, that no one of the domestics from Ahimelek's household had ventured to look upon her face.
Her exposed arms were of such graceful shape that one scarcely noticed the wristlets and armlets with which her maid had insisted on decorating them.
In connection with these ornaments the persistence of tradition in goldsmith's work is curiously seen, since armlets closely resembling the earlier examples are made and worn in Cairo at the present day.
Armlets of glass, chiefly of a deep transparent blue, have also been found.
The serpent form appears to have been a favourite one among Roman ladies, and a fine pair ofarmlets of this design are in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Pl.
The torques are mostly penannular and have enlarged terminals; the armlets are often complete rings.
Armlets or bracelets appear to have been worn to a certain extent towards the close of the fifteenth century, but to have been reserved chiefly for summer wear.
Bracelets andarmlets may be considered together, for though the bracelet is properly only a decoration for the wrist, the term has become descriptive of any ornament worn upon the arm.
Then they eat a little and let the hen loose as a ransom for the soul of the patient; also they put down the raw eggs; but the silken robe, the gold, and the armlets they take home with them.
Armlets of nautilus shell threw up the dainty plumpness of her soft, round forearm.
They were dressed in aprons of dracæna leaves only, with necklets and armlets of sharks' teeth and cowrie shells.
Armlets and bracelets are sometimes made of bands of beadwork, though brass wire or pieces of metal are preferred.
Of anklets and armlets we bought nearly all they had--two yards of calico would easily make breech-clouts for fifty of these men, so they effected rapid exchanges.
It consisted of a large mass of silver, in the form of ingots or bars of various sizes, a few armlets and rings, and portions of other ornaments, cut into pieces as if for remelting.
There are brass staves of office carried as symbols of authority by the messengers of the Oshogbo, a native secret society; and there are spoons, knives and other domestic sundries, as well as armlets and anklets of copper and brass.
There are Celtic tweezers, armlets of bronze, and many rings.
The South African curios in brass are very limited; they consist chiefly of collars and armlets worn by the women of Basutoland and Bechuanaland, and by the Kaffir women who have also girdles of brass cleverly formed.
Armlets were conferred on soldiers for heroic deeds, and even now the rank of non-commissioned officers in the army is indicated by stripes on their sleeves.
The wearing ofarmlets and bracelets has never been confined to women.
He wore two gold earrings [schione] in his ears, [211] and the others many gold armlets on their arms and kerchiefs about their heads.
For all their wild acts, and the jingle of their brass and bone leglets and armlets as they made their wretched limb-tossings, their performance was as nothing compared to the white girl's wondrous grace.
Armlets and leglets fashioned from the pretty treduca shells jingled as the girls romped round the apprentice.
As for the tambu dancers who stood by the idols in a semi-nude state, armlets and leglets and threaded shells jingling on their moving limbs, they were as wonderful in their way as the South Sea Laocoon.
Necklet and armlets the same as on the bronze figures.
He wears a pot hat, a collar, and loose necklet hanging down over the chest, also armlets and wristlets.
But this armlet will get broken just as the other two armlets that were given to me have got broken.
I cannot wear armlets and play polo, and I would rather play polo.
When moved, the two armlets rattle against each other.
It has armlets and a ruff-like ornament round its neck.
M--Armlets of porcupine-quill work, made by half-breed girl at Fort Chipewyan.
After they had drunk, he gave her two rings to hang on her ears weighing two shekels, and as many armlets weighing ten shekels, and asked her whose daughter she was, and if there were any room in her father's house to be lodged.
Rebekah had a brother named Laban, which hastily went out to the man where as he was when he had seen the rings in his sister's ears and her poinettes or armlets on her hands; and had heard her say all that the man said.
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