| 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 When the block is withdrawn, the lip drops down upon the chin... | |
| 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 When tho block is withdrawn, the lip drops down upon the chin like a piece of leather, displaying the teeth,... | |
| 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*)... | |
| 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*)... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 When the block is withdrawn the lip drops down upon...wearing this ornament is not extended to female slaves."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,"... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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