 | Encyclopaedia, William Wardlaw Ramsay - 1851 - 518 pages
...is generally believed to have resembled what is now called a poncho, that is, to have been a thick blanket with a hole cut in the centre, through which the head was inserted. The statue represented above, and marked (2) is supposed to be dressed in a Paemila,... | |
 | 1908 - 336 pages
...a mile to catch a horse in order to ride a quarter of a mile. Both are well clothed; the poncho, or blanket with a hole cut in the centre, through which the head is thrust, being the garment donned over others in bad weather. Both are experts in the use of the... | |
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... blanket, with a hole cut in the centre, through which the head... 