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44 FIRST PERIOD—ANTIQUITr
Among the natives of New South Wales, it is the custom when a youth
reaches viriHty to knock out his front teeth with a stone; this operation
being carried out by the kuradslus or wizards.
The savages of Peru are also in the habit of making the front teeth
fall out; the reason of the custom is that the space thus made is regarded
by them as an embellishment.^
* Carabelli, op. cit., p. 17.
