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 (1887)
Simms, Joseph, 1833-1920 · New York : D.M. Bennett · leaf 545
obedienceto the demands of fashion, however absurd and tyrannical,Turkish women succeeded in displaying mouths to remindus of an annual lease, which is from {y) ear to {y) ear (seefig- 20). There is an account given of a people in Ethiopia whomade a practice of drawing down the under lip, until… … Fig. 20.—A Woman of Turkey. Fig. 21.—An Ethiopian. Those cannibals called Paries formerly had a custom ofboring three large holes in their faces, one in the underand two in the upper lip, as in fig. 22. Into these holesthey inserted green stones. Some of the tribes about Sierra Leone have been…
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