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A BRATZKIAN WOMAN,
OF VDINSKOI OSTROG.
1 HE Mongolian nations are peculiarly characterized hy the form of
the head, or cranium ; and in this respect, as well as in manners and
rural economy, the lialmuks and Bratzkiye, although living at so great
a distance, so nearly resemble each other, that whatever has been
related of the one may in a great measure be regarded as common to
both. Tile Bratzkiye are, however, more corpulent than the Kalmuks,
but their bodily structure has little strength or solidity. They are also
a very healthy people, although they seldom attain to an advanced age
Their physicians are their Schamans, who pretend to cure them more
by sacrifices, incantations, and magical spells, than by natural means
'¡here is a considerable variety of dress among such as live at some
distance from each other, as may be observed in this and the last Plate,
as well as in their manner of arranging their hair; the latter circumstance,
however, is characteristic more of their relative situations in
life. The girls divide theirs into numerous braids, while the hair of
the married women is regularly parted into two, one of which hangs
down over each shoulder.
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