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Title: The Azores : or Western Islands : a political, commercial and geographical account ...
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Walker, Walter Frederick
Subjects: Azores -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Trubner & Co.
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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ST. Michaels peasant and carapuca. seem as if some wag of the sixteenth century had coinedthe word carapu9a, to spite and poke fun at those who usedso hideous a covering. It is singular how, in the size and form of their carapu9as,the people of the various, and particularly remoter villages in 285 St. Michael preserve a species of ethnographical distinction,which extends to the entire gronp, the carapu9as, especiallyof St. Michael, Terceira, and Madeira, differing so entirelyas if they belonged to different planets, and a very interest-
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WOMEN IN CAPOTE E CAPELLO. ing and good-sized volume might be written npon thestrangely varying headgears of the inhabitants, both maleand female, of this archipelago, the only exception beingGraciosa, the inhabitants of which use a straw or felt hator a cap. The capote and capello of the women also differ in everyisland, according to the taste and caprice of their respective 286 inhabitants. The capote is an ample cloak reaching to thefeet, and made of dark blue cloth—infinitely too hot forsuch a climate as this, except on a cold wintry day. Sur-mounting this is a ponderous hood, the capello, of thesame material, kept expanded by means of whale-bone, andin which the head is completely lost. These capotes, beingof a dark color, give the streets of the town a sombre and subfusc appearance whenever a large gathering of thebetter-to-do lower class takes place. A much more pleasing-effect is created by the mixing together of the poorerpeople or country women, who, from poverty, affect a

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  • bookyear:1886
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Walker__Walter_Frederick
  • booksubject:Azores____Description_and_travel
  • bookpublisher:London___Trubner___Co_
  • bookcontributor:Claire_T__Carney_Library__University_of_Massachusetts_Dartmouth
  • booksponsor:Claire_T__Carney_Library__University_of_Massachusetts_Dartmouth
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