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 (1887)
Simms, Joseph, 1833-1920 · New York, Murray Hill Publishing Company · leaf 541
e 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,… … Fig. 11.—A Belinii Man. fashion; or, man deformed by artificial means. 513 euce. In Caffraria, Lower Ethiopia, and Mozambique, fla<;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…
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