Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are indolent, treacherous and ferocious: Their dwellings are wretched hoyels ; and they go entirely naked with the exception of a piece of cloth fastened round the waist. Some of them wear . an ornament of mother of pearl, or thin plates of gold of an oval shape, of the size of a crown-piece and very prettily indented round the edge. Five of these plates placed one beside an- other cover the forehead ; and they are so thin and arranged with such art that they seem to be sunk into the skin. Pigafetta, nearly two centuries earlier, speaks of the rings hanging from their ears, necklaces and combs of reeds adorned with rings of the same metal, and also of gold and copper bracelets,