 | James Greenwood - Anthropology - 1863 - 438 pages
...The women, and some of the men too, who are exceedingly proud of their hirsute ornaments, and cannot make up their minds to shorten them, plait them into...remain in all its pristine loveliness for several days. New Guinea Skil_ 216 DOMESTIC LIFE OF OJIBBEWAT WOMEN. rights of women are limited. She is worked like... | |
 | James Greenwood (journalist.) - 1878 - 510 pages
...infinite number of these little tails. On the head of one of these native beauties I counted abovesixty plaits. The good lady's slaves must have had a good...remain in all its pristine loveliness for several days. .New Guinea okuiu Asliira Belle. CHAPTER X Domestic life of Ojibbeway women— Figian women and Figian... | |
 | James Greenwood - Aboriginal Australians - 1879 - 474 pages
...The women, and some of the men too, who are exceedingly proud of their hirsute ornaments, and cannot make up their minds to shorten them, plait them into...remain in all its pristine loveliness for several days. New Guinea okuu. CHAPTER X. Domestic life of Ojibbeway women— Figian women and Figian hogs— Delights... | |
 | Edmund Yates, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - English literature - 1883 - 752 pages
...cases of the richer Malagaseys, who have their hair plaited into an infinite number of these small tails. On the head of one of these native beauties...in all its pristine loveliness for several days." THE NEW PUBLIC LIBRARY A PILGRIMAGE TO TROITSA. FOREMOST among the holy places of "Holy" Russia is... | |
 | Edmund Yates, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - English literature - 1883 - 756 pages
...cases of the richer Malagaseys, who have their hair plaited into an infinite number of these small tails. On the head of one of these native beauties...in all its pristine loveliness for several days." ANDREW T. SIBBALD. A PILGEIMAGE TO TEOITSA. FOREMOST among the holy places of " Holy " Russia is the... | |
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Some let these tails hang all about their heads, while others unite them into bands or bunches, so as to cover the whole head. This kind of head-dress takes a good deal of time in preparing, particularly in the cases of the richer Malagaseys, who have... 