The heritage of dress; being notes on the history and evolution of clothes (1908)
Webb, Wilfred Mark, 1868- · New York, The McClure Co.; London, E. Grant Richards · leaf 162
g on the antiquity of buttons, we may saythat they are found among prehistoric remains in thiscountry, and though they were foreign to the ancientEgyptians, we learn (through the kindness of ProfessorFlinders Petrie) that engraved buttons or seals wereusual from the sixth to the nineteenth dynasty,… … A WOMAN AND A WITCH DOCTOR OF CENTRAr, AFRICA, SHEWING THE PART THAT ORNAMENTS MAY PI.AY EVEN WHEN CI.OTHINi; IS OK THE SCANTIEST. (From a photograph hy Captain Ford.) PLATE II. i^^=
Costume · Clothing and dress
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