| Anthropology - 1877 - 606 pages
...with obsidian flakes. I am informed that the Solomon inlanders are tattooed with short cuts thus made. two natives who were painted on board all over with...bodies a metallic lustre, like that given by plumbago. The blacking was extended ;over the faces and chests. The old women were often blackened, and a group... | |
| Anthropology - 1877 - 608 pages
...with obsidian flakes. I am informed that the Soloman islanders are tattooed with short cuts thus made. two natives who were painted on board all over with...bodies a metallic lustre, like that given by plumbago. The blacking was extended over the faces and chests. The old women were often blackened, and a group... | |
| Anthropology - 1877 - 634 pages
...obsidian flakes. I am informed that the Solornan islanders are tattdoed vith short cuts thus made. two natives who were painted on board all over with...bodies a metallic lustre, like that given by plumbago. The blacking was extended over the faces and chests. The old women were often blackened, and a group... | |
| Henry Nottidge Moseley - Challenger Expedition - 1879 - 678 pages
...arms. I saw them once so worn. Flowers, also, are seldom worn, but a single Hibiscus rosa sinensi* flower is occasionally worn in the hair. The full-grown...made with obsidian flakes. I am informed that the Soloruan Islanders are tattooed with short cuts thus made. The blacking was extended over the faces... | |
| Antiquities - 1879 - 782 pages
...elaborately on festive occasions, in war, &c. They were fond of being painted, and two natives who wore painted on board all over with engine-room oil-paint,...stripes and various facetious designs, were delighted." Mr. Moseley further says that " the skulls of turtles suspended in the temples are ornamented with... | |
| Antiquities - 1888 - 660 pages
...to use it with effect. No doubt they paint themselves elaborately on festive occasions, in war, &c. They were fond of being painted, and two natives who...stripes and various facetious designs, were delighted." Mr. Moseley farther says that " the skulls of turtles suspended in the temples are ornamented with... | |
| Henry Nottidge Moseley - Challenger Expedition - 1892 - 540 pages
...their dark colour that Melanesians generally have adopted cicatrization so largely as a substitute. No doubt the natives paint themselves elaborately...lustre, like that given by plumbago or boot blacking. The blacking was extended over the faces and chests. The old women were often blackened, and a group... | |
| Royal Irish Academy - Science - 1888 - 616 pages
...themselves elaborately on festive occasions, in war, &c. They were fond of being painted, and tivo nativqs who were painted on board all over with engine-room...stripes and various facetious designs, were delighted." s Mr. Moseley further says that " the skulls of turtles suspended in the temples are ornamented with... | |
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