...braiding in her visit to the Sophia baths; in the following passages, Montagu writes, the women were "only adorned by their beautiful hair divided into...their shoulders, braided either with pearl or ribbon" (59). "This braiding is performed by slaves, who, writes Montagu, "were employed in braiding their...

...She related erotically charged scenes of black women tending the every whim of naked odalisques with "skins shiningly white, only adorned by their beautiful hair divided into many tresses," lounging on rich carpets and cushions or bathing in the many pools. Montagu's reports resonated with...

...many ti, ;!' -, hanging on their moulders, braided either with pearl or ribbon, perfectly reprefeming the figures of the graces. I was here convinced of the truth of a n flection, I have often made " that if it were the fafhion to go naked, the face vrould be hardly...