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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    manner represented in the annexed en- graving. ‘The sole garment of one was a strip of kagaroo skin, about two inches broad, passed six orSeven times round the waist ; another had a collar of skin round her neck, and some a slender cord bound several times round the head. These cords were made of the bark of a shrub of the spurge family, very common in the country. On their skin, particularly on the breast and shoulders, these people have tubercles symmetrically arranged, ex- hibiting sometimes lines four inches in — length, at others points placed at diffe- rent distances. ‘These risings are pro- duced by some application which does