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Excerpt from: A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, pp. 237 ff.

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A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, p. 237.
A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, p. 237.
A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, p. 238.
A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, p. 238.
A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, p. 239.
A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, p. 239.
A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, p. 240.
A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, p. 240.
A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, p. 241.
A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, p. 241.
A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, p. 242.
A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, p. 242.
A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, p. 243.
A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, p. 243.
A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, p. 244.
A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, p. 244.

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