Word: adorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Please be more careful in future, because I count on TIME to tell me all the knowworthy facts about men who adorn its covers...
...Kahn led an expedition into South America. Almost 200 years ago, African slaves in Dutch Guiana revolted, went into the bush to establish an Africo-South American civilization. Today the tribes live in thatched huts, cut designs into their flesh. Cowrie shells from the East Indies are used to adorn amulets as in Africa. The tribes speak "talkie-talkie," a mixture of Dutch, English, Portuguese, French and African. The Boni tribe in French Guiana has fallen under the influence of missionaries more than the Dutch tribes. Many of them wear trousers. Dr. Kahn brought back 300 specimens of woodcarving...