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Life in Abyssinia: being notes collected during three years' residence and travels in that country (1853)

Parkyns, Mansfield, 1823-1894 · London, Murray · leaf 44

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a lot of little bells hanging to the bottom edge of it, and the whole suspended by four chains of the same metal. Three pair of massive silver and gilt bracelets are on her wrists, and a similar number of ''bangles" on her ankles ; while over her insteps and to her heels are a quantity of little… … 1, 2. Hair-pins made of bard wood, and stained with henna. 3. Ditto, of sUver and gilt fil-et-grain work. (About one half usual size.)

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