Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; (1908) (14747189146)

Two girls from Fiji. They are wearing native petticoats over their European frocks. Their hair is stiffened by means of gum, and decorated with combs with long spikes. The upper one is a half-caste.

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Title: Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence;

Year: 1908 (1900s)

Authors: Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868-

Subjects: Women

Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Cassell and Company, limited

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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tu, Ysabel, on the death ofhis only child from whooping-cough. Myfather, I cannot write a long letter, becausegrief has come to me, for my child is deadwith me, and I continue wretched. I havenot done anything against God. The children on their part are said toshow no particular sentiment with regardto their parents, especially their mother,whom they cannot always recognise whentheir father possesses numerous wives. Buthere, again, there are many exceptions. Throughout Melanesia, as a rule, lessattention is paid to the birth of a girl thanto that of a boy, and the feasts and pig-killings or other ceremonies designed toattract spiritual favours or avert spiritualmaleficence are generally omitted. In theNew Hebrides a pretty custom exists. Whenthe child is ten days old, and the mother iswell again, the father goes down to thebeach to wash the things belonging to thebaby. If the child is a boy he scatters toybows as he walks along, so that he may bestrong and a good bowman ; if the child

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TWO GIRLS FROM FIJI. They are wearing native pelticoats over iheir European frocks. Their hair is stiffened by means o( gum, and decorated with combs with long spikes. The upper one is a half-caste. 13 98 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS is a girl he scattcis Paiidanus libres on herbehalf, in order that she may be industriousin the making of mats. Sometimes the mother names the child,generally after a relation; sometimes the

2 Mädchen Frauen des 20. Jahrhunderts auf Fidschi Fidschi in den 1900er Jahren Frauen aller Nationen, eine Aufzeichnung ihrer Eigenschaften, Gewohnheiten, Bräuche und Einfluss 1908 Buchillustrationen hohe Auflösung Bilder aus dem Internetarchiv

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