In addition to the above, if the child is a girl, her eyebrows are shaved and a curve drawn in their place, extending from the root of the nose to the ear (di-pantiskan bentok taji deri muka sampei pelipis). The mixture used for marking these curves consists of manjakani mixed with milk from the mother's breast. Another most curious custom which recalls a parallel custom among North American Indians, is occasionally resorted to for the purpose of altering the shape of the child's head. When it is considered too long (terlampau panjang), a small tightly-fitting "yam leaf cap" (songko' daun k'ladi), consisting of seven thicknesses of calladium (yam) leaves is used to compress it. This operation is supposed to shorten the child's skull, and the person who fits it on to the child's head uses the words--"Muhammad, short be your head" in the case of a boy, and "Fatimah, short be your head" in the case of a girl. Now comes the ceremony of administering to the infant what is called the "mouth-opener" (lit. "mouth-splitter," pemb'lah mulut); first, you take a green cocoa-nut (niyor sungkoran), split it in halves (di-b'lah niyor), put a "grain" of salt inside one-half of the shell (di-buboh garam sa-buku), and give it to the child to drink, counting up to seven, and putting it to the child's mouth at the word seven (letakkan di mulut-nya). Then repeat the ceremony, substituting asam (tamarinds?) for the salt. Finally, take a gold ring, and after rubbing it against the inside of the cocoa-nut (cholek di-dalam niyor), lay it upon the child's lips, (letakkan di bibir-nya), saying "Bismillah," etc. Do the same with a silver and amalgam (gold and silver) ring respectively, and the ceremony will be at an end. I may note, in passing, that it is in allusion to the above ceremony that you will sometimes hear old men say "It's not the first time I tasted salt, I did so ever since I was first put into my swinging-cot" (aku makan garam dahulu, deripada tatkala naik buayan). Sometimes a little "rock" sugar (gula batu) is added to make the "mouth-opener" more palatable. From the time when the child is about twenty-four hours old until it is of the age of three months, it is fed with rice boiled in a pot on the fire, "broken" (di-lechek) by means of a short broad cocoa-nut shell spoon (pelechek), mixed with a little sugar and squeezed into small receptacles of woven cocoa-nut leaf (ketupat). Later it is taught to feed at the breast (menetek), which continues until it is weaned by the application of bitter aloes (jadam) to the mother's breasts. In the rice-jar (buyong b'ras) during this period, a stone, a big iron nail, and a "candle-nut" must be kept, and a spoon (sendok) must always be used for putting the rice into the pot before boiling it. Moreover, the mother, when eating or drinking, must always cross her left arm under her breasts (di-ampu susu-nya di lengan kiri) leaving the right arm free to bring the food to the mouth.