. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. I?:'' > ¥i' > 1 478 EXPLANATORY INDEX. for its beauty and intellect. The Acoways wear scarcely any clotliing, and indeed, when no white men are near, do not trouble themselves about clothes at all. They wear their coarse black hair very lon^:^, and are accustomed to carry a piece of wood in the cartilage of the nose f. REAL AND ID


. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. I?:'' > ¥i' > 1 478 EXPLANATORY INDEX. for its beauty and intellect. The Acoways wear scarcely any clotliing, and indeed, when no white men are near, do not trouble themselves about clothes at all. They wear their coarse black hair very lon^:^, and are accustomed to carry a piece of wood in the cartilage of the nose f. REAL AND IDEAL. The Caribs are also nude, and wear ornaments in their under lips. Lastly, come the Macoushies, who are the best wourali makers, and sell it to other tribes. In the accompanying illustration I have brought together three ligures, in order to show the difference between tlie European and Guianan types of the human frame. The "Painter's Ideal" is copied from an imaginative drawing of a young Indian girl, as depicted by a well-known artist. The model is clearly of an English type, with the abundant fi:i. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865. London : Macmillan


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Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectzoology, bookyear1885