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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    they go abroad or when it is cold, they turn up so as to cover the head and shoulders. Some of them, and especi- ally the dancers by profession, wear copper rings round the leg above the ancle. They frequently use a coloured handkerchief for their head-dress, which they arrange with wonderful — skill. Sometimes too, they fasten their hair with rings of gold or silver, or a curved wooden comb of an elegant form. In general, however, both men and women let their hair flow loosely down their shoulders; washing’ it constantly with a ley of wood-ashes and giving it a fine lustre with cocoa-nut oil. Both sexes go barefoot. The men of the lower class and slaves G3