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Chats on costume (1906)

Rhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft), 1854-1920 · London : T.F. Unwin · leaf 245

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vingthe heads of their childrenat a very early age. Headds, In other countriesthe priests of the godswear long hair ; in Egyptthey have it shaved. Withother men it is customary in mourning for thenearest relations to have their heads shorn; theEgyptians, on occasions of death, let the hair growboth… … ASSYRIAN BAS-RELIEF. Layards ^^ Nineveh y DRESSING HAIR, MOUSTACHIOS, AND BEARD 239 Tartars, who waged a long and bloody war with thePersians, declaring them infidels, though in otherrespects of the same faith as themselves, because theyrefused to cast their whiskers after the mode or riteof the…

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