Nature's revelations of character; or, physiognomy illustrated. A description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance (1879)
Simms, Joseph, 1833-1920 · New York, D.M. Bennett, Liberal and Scientific Publishing House · leaf 541
breast. Another set of fashions operates on the noses of humanbeinffs. The islanders of Zanzibar used to have their nosesturned upwards; and the size of nostril in the females,which to a stranger must have appeared a great deformity,was reckoned the height of fashion. (Fig. 12.) On the other hand,… … Fig. 11.—A Belinii Man. TASHION; OR, MAN DEFORMED BY ARTIFICIAL MEANS. 513 euce. In Caffraria, Lower Ethiopia, and Mozambique, flatnoses are in request: it is preferred that they should be soby nature, otherwise artificial methods are employed. Theinhabitants of Tartary used to cut and pare down…
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