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" Thlinkeet belle ; for larger lip-blocks are introduced as years advance, and each enlargement adds to the lady's social status, if not to her facial charms. When the block is withdrawn, the lip drops down upon the chin like a piece of leather, displaying... "
The Journal of the Royal institution of Great Britain. Notices of the ... - Página 379
de Royal institution of Great Britain - 1882
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The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America, Volumen 1

Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1874 - 870 páginas
...thick round the edge, and highly polished.150 Old age has little terror in the eyes of a T hlinkeet belle, for larger lip-blocks are introduced as years...advance, and each enlargement adds to the lady's social «tatti.«, if not to her facial charms. When the block is withdrawn, the lip drops down upon the chin...
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Humboldt library of science. no. 28, 1882, Número 28

1882 - 60 páginas
...thick round the edge, and it is highly polished. Old age has little terror in the eyes of a Thlinkeet belle ; for larger lip-blocks are introduced as years...lady's social status, if not to her facial charms. When tho block is withdrawn, the lip drops down upon the chin like a piece of leather, displaying the teeth,...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volumen 17

1880 - 924 páginas
...op. cit., vol. i., for numerous citations from original observers regarding these customs. Thlinkeet belle ; for larger lip-blocks are introduced as years...method of adornment the native Americans are, however, rivaled, if not eclipsed, by the negroes of the heart of Africa. "The Bongo women" (says Schweinfurth*)...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volumen 17

1880 - 900 páginas
...op. cH., vol. i., for numerous citations from original observers regarding these customs. Thlinkeet belle ; for larger lip-blocks are introduced as years...method of adornment the native Americans are, however, rivaled, if not eclipsed, by the negroes of the heart of Africa. " The Bongo women " (says Schweinfurth*)...
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Fashion in Deformity: As Illustrated in the Customs of Barbarous and ...

sir William Henry Flower - 1881 - 108 páginas
...thick round the edge, and it is highly polished. Old age has little terror in the eyes of a Thlinkeet belle ; for larger lipblocks are introduced as years...to female slaves." In this method of adornment the North Americans are, however, rivalled, if not eclipsed, by the negroes of the heart of Africa. " The...
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The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: The native races. 1886

Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1882 - 876 páginas
...round the edge, and highly polished.150 Old age has little terror in the eyes of a fhlinkeet telle, for larger lip-blocks are introduced as years advance,...leather, displaying the teeth, and presenting altogether chen sieh Spuren der Mnnnlmrkeit zeigen, wird ihre Unterlippe durchstochen und in diese Oeff'nung eine...
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American Illustrated Magazine, Volumen 13

1882 - 780 páginas
...one to four inches in width, and about half MU inch thick round the edge, and it is highly polished. When the block is withdrawn the lip drops down upon...wearing this ornament is not extended to female slaves." The North Americans are, however, eclipsed by the negroes of the heart of Africa. "The Bongo women,"...
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The Popular Science News and Boston Journal of Chemistry, Volúmenes 17-20

1883 - 710 páginas
...whose interesting treatise on Fashion in Deformity we are indebted for most of these facts, remarks, " When the block is withdrawn, the lip drops down upon...a ghastly spectacle." The " privilege" of wearing such an ornament is happily not estended to female slaves ; but all freeborn girls have the slit made...
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The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: The native races. 1882

Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1886 - 874 páginas
...woman, the wife of a chief, wnose lip-ornament was so large, little terror in the eyes of a Thlinkeet belle, for larger lip-blocks are introduced as years...teeth, and presenting altogether a ghastly spectacle. 151 This custom is evidently associated in their minds with womanly modesty, for when La Pdrouse asked...
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... The Native Races, Volumen 1

Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1886 - 874 páginas
...woman, the wife of a chief, wnose lip-ornament was so large. little terror in the eyes of a Thlinkeet belle, for larger lip-blocks are introduced as years...displaying the teeth, and presenting altogether a ghastly spectacle.151 This custom is evidently associated in their minds with womanly modesty, for when La...
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