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  • Tall waving plumes of many colors decked their heads, and armlets and leglets of gold and silver, crusted with gleaming gems, completed their ornamentation.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • The rich wore armlets and leglets of staircase rods, brass and copper, like the metal gaiters and gauntlets of the Gaboon River.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • Now, on that very day, the Maganud went up the mountain to get some agsam [125] to make leglets for himself.

    Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

  • A comb in the hair, a pair of ear disks in the ears, a few necklets, and frequently leglets, complete the apparel.

    The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

  • [142] A short, pointed iron tool; used to punch ornamental designs in brass ornaments, especially bracelets and leglets.

    Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

  • Other superstitious were mentioned, as the wearing of bracelets and leglets of wild boar's skin and the burning of deer's bones to scare away thunder.

    Negritos of Zambales William Allan Reed

  • Bead necklaces, with pendants of crocodile teeth and strips of mother-of-pearl; bracelets of seashell, [13] large, white and heavy; bracelets of vegetable fiber and of sea wood; a comb inlaid with mother-of-pearl, and adorned with beads and tassels of cotton; leglets of plaited jungle fiber -- all these constitute her finery.

    The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

  • Negritos say these leglets give the wearer greater powers of endurance and are efficacious in making long journeys less tiresome.

    Negritos of Zambales William Allan Reed

  • When he came near the house he saw, lying down on the ground under the kinarum-tree, [100] the things that he had given his wife before he went away, -- pendants of pearl, bracelets and leglets of brass, gold necklaces (kamagi [101]), hair-ornaments of dyed goats'-hair and birds'-down, finger-rings, and leg-bands of twisted wire hung with bells.

    Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

  • Both sexes also wear, above the calf of the leg, plaited or beaded leglets to some of which magical properties are ascribed.

    The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition Fay-Cooper Cole 1921

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