Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    have their hair turned up and held toge- ther by a handkerchief tied and twisted in various ways. A piece of stuff wrap- ped round the waist forms a sort of pet- ticoat that reaches to the knees; an- other long piece of cotton, which they _wear over their shoulders in the form of a shawl, serves to screen them from the sun, rain and cold at night, as re- presented in the annexed plate. Over their left shoulder they carry also a bag made of a handkerchief, the ends of which are passed through rings of tor- toise-shell and metal; and in this they _ carry their betel and provisions when: they travel. . The natives of Timor, and the princes in particular, may take as many wives