Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    seem to be most agreeable to their pa- - lates. Respecting the religion of these peo- ple we have no information. Idols re gularly but unskilfully carved are to be seen in their houses and near their graves. The head of these figures is extremely small and surmounted by a pointed cowl longer than all the rest of the body; the mouth, from which rings of wood or bone are suspended, reaches from ear to ear; the eyes are small and round; the chin very peaked; there is scarcely any body, and the legs areslen- _ der and fluted. The people, however, appear not to pay the least veneration to these idols.