 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1882 - 840 páginas
...each side. A very favourite ornament for the cartilage between the nostrils is a copper ring, jnst like those that are placed in the noses of buffaloes...furnishes an excuse for boring a hole, and inserting a ping or a ring. There are women in the country whose bodies are pierced in some way or other in little... | |
 | Georg August Schweinfurth - 1874 - 648 páginas
...the orifice, and literally to put a curb upon its capabilities. These subsidiary ornaments are Dot however found at all universally among the women,...as it does for an artificial distinction of race. According to the custom of the people, there need only be a trifling projection of the skin so as to... | |
 | Georg August Schweinfurth - 1878 - 352 páginas
...corners of the mouth, as though they wanted to contract the orifice, and literally to put a curb upon ita capabilities. These subsidiary ornaments are not however...it does for an artificial distinction of race. The ears are perforated more than any part, both the outer and the inner auricle being profusely pierced... | |
 | 1880 - 922 páginas
...for the cartilage between the nostrils is a copper ring, just like those that are placed in the nose of buffaloes and other beasts of burden for the purpose...the lower lip of the married women is alone a sine qud non, serving as it does for an artificial distinction of race." The slightest fold or projection... | |
 | 1880 - 900 páginas
...for the cartilage between the nostrils is a copper ring, just like those that are placed in the nose of buffaloes and other beasts of burden for the purpose...the lower lip of the married women is alone a sine qud non, serving as it docs for an artificial distinction of race." The slightest fold or projection... | |
 | William Henry Flower - 1881 - 108 páginas
...the edges of the nostrils, and I have seen as many as three of these on each side. A very favourite ornament for the cartilage between the nostrils is...the lower lip of the married women is alone a sine gud non, serving, as it does, for an artificial distinction of race." The slightest fold or projection... | |
 | 1882 - 780 páginas
...contract the orifice, and, literally, to put a curb upon its capabilities. These subsidiary ornamenta are not, however, found at all universally among the...individual ; the plug in the lower lip of the married woman is alone a sine qua non, serving, aa it does, for an artificial distinction of race. "Similar... | |
 | William Henry Flower - 1898 - 428 páginas
...coquettes among the ladies wear a clasp, or clamp, at the corners of the 1 Heart of Africa, vol. ip 297. mouth, as though they wanted to contract the orifice,...for boring a hole, and inserting a plug or a ring. Fio. 17. — Loobah woman. From Schweinfurth's Heart of Africa. There are women in the country whose... | |
 | William Henry Flower - 1898 - 426 páginas
...coquettes among the ladies wear a clasp, or clamp, at the corners of the 1 ffewrt of Africa, roL ip 297. mouth, as though they wanted to contract the orifice,...the lower lip of the married women is alone a sine qud non, serving, as it does, for an artificial distinction of race." The slightest fold or projection... | |
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... of buffaloes and other beasts of burden for the purpose of rendering them more tractable. The greatest coquettes among the ladies wear a clasp, or cramp, at the corners of the mouth, as though they wanted to contract the orifice, and literally to... 