. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . ritoCograph by H. Binks, KIKUYU GIRLS POUNDING the curious methods of ear distortion. 264 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS As the women do most of the manuallabour they age early. Comparatively fewcattle are kept, and even those few are neverused for food, so that the women mustwork hard to keep the household well have a larger variety of food than a poncho which reaches below the knees,with no sleeves, and open in front ; a smallapron is worn, and a half-petticoat is sus-pend
. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . ritoCograph by H. Binks, KIKUYU GIRLS POUNDING the curious methods of ear distortion. 264 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS As the women do most of the manuallabour they age early. Comparatively fewcattle are kept, and even those few are neverused for food, so that the women mustwork hard to keep the household well have a larger variety of food than a poncho which reaches below the knees,with no sleeves, and open in front ; a smallapron is worn, and a half-petticoat is sus-pended round the waist. Before marriagethey adorn themselves with innumerablebracelets, anklets, earrings; the ears are. KIKUYU GIRL WASHING eyebrows are shaved off and the ears laden with ornaments. photon rafh by pc oj A. C. HoUis. some of the tribes, as they cultivate sweetpotatoes, yams, scin-scm, bananas, andsugar-cane. The only use made of thecattle is to buy wives or to settle fineswith them, or to pay blood-money in casea man has committed murder or somegreat crime. The women marry veryyoung; they are very clean and tidy, andshave their heads with the exception of acircular crown of hair at the back. A triangular notch is filed in the twoupper incisors, while the two lower onesare frequently extracted. For clothes, the women wear three gar-ments made of skin ; the married ones wear stretched and pierced to admit large discsof wood, which greatly disfigure the birth of the first child most ofthese ornaments are discarded. Curiously enough, the women in this tribedo not make their own clothes, this dutyfalling to the lot of mere man. The latter,however, are adepts at the wor
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