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Identifier: worldsinhabitant00bett (find matches)
Title: The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Subjects: Civilization Culture
Publisher: London Ward, Lock
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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aURCOMAN WOMEN IN TEM.432 THE INHABITANTS OF TURKESTAN. 433 were a dark purple silk one, wliicli we can only describe as a sliirt reach-ing: nearly to the ankles, and close-fittina; troiisers drawn , tr> J 7 o ^ ^ Jewellery tightly round the ankles. On her head was a bright crimson andsilk handkerchief arranged turban-like, and one end falling onher left shoukler. But her ornaments were sufficient in quantity to decka shop-window. On her neck Avas a massive silver collar about an inchand a half deep, and a third of an inch thick. At intervals around itwere set flat oval cornelians and lozenge-shaped panels of embossed gold.From its front there hung a score of silver chains, halfway down whichwere lozenge-shaped pieces of silver embossed with gold, supporting asilver cylinder hanging down below the waist, and containing talismanicwritings for defence against evilspirits. On either side of herbosom hung so many silver coins,Russian and Persian, as to re-semble a cuirass. Each shoulde

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  • booksubject:Civilization
  • booksubject:Culture
  • bookpublisher:London_Ward__Lock
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