. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . ANGON GIRL WINNOWING MAIZE. She is kneeling on a mat of split bango reeds—behind heron the left is an earthen pot containing the gourd usedfor drawing water Some relish (boiled in a small pot put onbeside the big one for the porridge) is eatenwith it—it may be green vegetables, or 3oS WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS. .;;..-.:,-;-,7//; /v y. G. Auii/e. AN ANGONI GIRL POUNDING MAIZE. The mortar is formed from a Iree-trunk. Note the reed fencesurrounding the little yard and the growing maize behind it. beans
. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . ANGON GIRL WINNOWING MAIZE. She is kneeling on a mat of split bango reeds—behind heron the left is an earthen pot containing the gourd usedfor drawing water Some relish (boiled in a small pot put onbeside the big one for the porridge) is eatenwith it—it may be green vegetables, or 3oS WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS. .;;..-.:,-;-,7//; /v y. G. Auii/e. AN ANGONI GIRL POUNDING MAIZE. The mortar is formed from a Iree-trunk. Note the reed fencesurrounding the little yard and the growing maize behind it. beans, or fish, or perhaps a fowl. It isthe height of bad manners to eat alone,and not share the food with is only done once, or at mosttwice a day, the principal meal beingtaken about sunset. A native story tellshow a husband and wife, each unkno\to the other, abstracted a leg of the par-tridge which was cooking, and retired,separately, into the dark interior of thehut to eat it, where they came violentlyinto collision, and had an explanation,each promising to say nothing about thematter if the other would only keep thestory quiet. African natives are as sen-sitive to ridicule as most other people—perhaps even a little more so. The Anyanja women have no special way of dressing their hair, though some shave it in patterns, andAnyanja „ Ornaments, occasionally one IS seen with red b
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