| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1877 - 514 páginas
...bamboo led up to it in the rear. In the centre there is a small house, affording a last resting-place to the victim, in which she waits until the ceremonies...combed, the mirror used, and her garments newly arranged ; in short, she arrays herself exactly as she would for a feast. Her dress is white, her breasts are... | |
| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1877 - 550 páginas
...bamboo led up to it in the rear. In the centre there is a small house, affording a last resting-place to the victim, in which she waits until the ceremonies...combed, the mirror used, and her garments newly arranged ; in short, she arrays herself exactly as she would for a feast. Her dress is white, her breasts are... | |
| Reinhold Rost - 1887 - 332 páginas
...bamboo led up to it in the rear. In the centre there is a small house, affording a last resting-place to the victim, in which she waits until the ceremonies...combed, the mirror used, and her garments newly arranged ; in short, she arrays herself exactly as she would for a feast. Her •dress is white, her breasts... | |
| Reinhold Rost - 1887 - 328 páginas
...bamboo led up to it in the rear. In the centre there is a small house, affording a last resting-place to the victim, in which she waits until the ceremonies...combed, the mirror used, and her garments newly arranged ; in short, she arrays herself exactly as she would for a feast. Her dress is white, her breasts are... | |
| Reinhold Rost - 1887 - 322 páginas
...ceremonies for her husband are finished and his body has begun to burn. The side of the bamboo scaflbld nearest to the fire is protected by a wall of wet...combed, the mirror used, and her garments newly arranged ; in short, she arrays herself exactly as she would for a feast. Her dress is white, her breasts are... | |
| Malcolm Potts, Roger Short - 1999 - 372 páginas
...the time for the leap draws near. There is a door at the end of the bridge that is not removed until the last minute. The victim sits in the house on the bridge, accompanied by a female priest and her relatives . . . Then she makes her toilet; her hair especially is combed, the mirror used, and... | |
| Reinhold Rost - 2000 - 332 páginas
...bamboo led up to it in the rear. In the centre there is a small house, affording a last resting-place to the victim, in which she waits until the ceremonies...combed, the mirror used, and her garments newly arranged ; in short, she arrays herself exactly as she would for a feast. Her dress is white, her breasts are... | |
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