. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . POPO coast tribes are becoming Europeanised in dres. 348 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS. Cross RiverWomen. P/toh^raph lioiiu, IM^OS. OLD AND 10UNG FETISH WOMEN,BADAGRY. Many West African tribes have women as priestesses. slaves ; in Kano, the chief town, the highestprice is paid for a girl of fourteen—from£7 to /lo. In this connection it may benoted that a free man may not marry aslave, and, if he has a child by his ownfemale slave, he may not afterwards sellher. If two slaves marry with
. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . POPO coast tribes are becoming Europeanised in dres. 348 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS. Cross RiverWomen. P/toh^raph lioiiu, IM^OS. OLD AND 10UNG FETISH WOMEN,BADAGRY. Many West African tribes have women as priestesses. slaves ; in Kano, the chief town, the highestprice is paid for a girl of fourteen—from£7 to /lo. In this connection it may benoted that a free man may not marry aslave, and, if he has a child by his ownfemale slave, he may not afterwards sellher. If two slaves marry with their mastersconsent, the children belong to the latteralternately. As regards the position of women ingeneral, they are better off than in mostMohammedan countries. They are not se-cluded, unless they are royal, and as a rulethey have freedom of choice, in respect ofmarriage. Not only so, but they have amarried womans property law, which enactsthat after marriage the woman retains herown ])roperty. Some of the Cross River women are,according to Mr. Partridge, more thanpassably good looking. They have well-shaped heads, small ears lying close, goodforeheads, short, straight noses
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