Physiognomy illustrated ; or, Nature's revelations of character : a description of the mental, moral, and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance (1891)
Simms, Joseph, 1833-1920 · New York : Murray Hill publishing company · leaf 539
breast. Another set of fashions operates on the noses of humanbeings. 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,… … Pig. 11.—A Belinii Man. FASHION; OR, MAN DEFORMED BY ARTIFICIAL MEANS. 513 ence. In CafFraria, Lower Ethiopia, and Mozambique, flat;noses 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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