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in the teen-aged adventure stories I read (which were often my parents' old copies of P.C. Wren stories), the Tuareg tribesmen wore blue veils in the desert heat..... I think it was the Picts who painted their faces blue, but that too is a woad story A. Dr Abigail Ann Young, Records of Early English Drama| [log in to unmask] Victoria College, University of Toronto | utoronto.ca| http://www.epas.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html || Home pages for REED & REED-L http://www.epas.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html|| Try 'em, you'll like 'em On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Steve Urkowitz wrote: > Perhaps blue faces reflected contact with North African Taureg peoples, the men > who dyed their faces blue? (At least they did in the teenager adventure storie > s I remember vividly from forty years ago. Ah, the orientalisms of yesteryear > . . .) > Steve Urkowitz ([log in to unmask]) >