river-shell

Updated: May 24, 2025

There was very little of the savage in her appearance, and she was of a much lighter colour than the boy. We found she was of the Miranha tribe, all of whom are distinguished by a slit, cut in the middle of each wing of the nose, in which they wear on holiday occasions a large button made of pearly river-shell.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons