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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    The rich have flowers- embroidered at the two ends. The women make this stuff of cotton. Persons of high rank wear large pieces of printed cotton, and two or three handkerchiefs wrapped round the head. In time of war some of them stick into this head-dress plumes composed of the feathers of the most beautiful birds of these parts. Their principal finery consists in gold and silver plates, coral necklaces of great value, and bracelets of gold or of a species of shell which is found in the shallow waters and resembles ivory. The wives of the great appear it is said but very rarely in public. They are distinguished by bracelets of gold and silver, coral necklaces and orna- e 2