Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . NO. 67.—HEAD OF A MOKSTER. 238 LARES AND NO. G8.—A MACKOCEIHALUS. ears, long nose, and slavering moutli, give it mucli of the expressionof an idiot, Avhicli also agrees -with the miserablj-contracted this image sarcastic ? or Avere idots, as in modern times in the East,looked upon as sacred or mysterious beings ; beings labouring i;nderan occult dispensation, and more particularly taken under divine pro-tection ? However
Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . NO. 67.—HEAD OF A MOKSTER. 238 LARES AND NO. G8.—A MACKOCEIHALUS. ears, long nose, and slavering moutli, give it mucli of the expressionof an idiot, Avhicli also agrees -with the miserablj-contracted this image sarcastic ? or Avere idots, as in modern times in the East,looked upon as sacred or mysterious beings ; beings labouring i;nderan occult dispensation, and more particularly taken under divine pro-tection ? However bad superstition may generally be, whoever firstpromulgated this, although in some instances public nuisances areentailed, secured kind treatment among a semi-barbarous people to anaflSicted humanity. Among the same group is a very remarkable head (No. 68) with Afri-can features, and large thick ears;the cranium is of an extraordinarylength from front to back. This ap-pears to be a head of the INIacroce-phali, a tribe of Asia Minor, Avhotook liberties in shaping the headsof their children as the Chinese dowith their ladies feet. There are also in the collectiontwo other heads of Macrocephali;o
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