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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
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ach. There are diversi-ties in the bodily appear-ance of African women—Sir H. H. Johnston clas-sifies the peoples of thecontinent into long andshort-legged—^no less thanin their headdress, orna-ments and mode of life ;womans lot is not every-where the same, and thecustoms of, and regard-ing, women are even more diversified ; buta survey of womans life at half a dozendifferent points will be more generally in-telligible than the most conscientious Blue-bookery work. If we start from St. Louis in Senegal, atthe mouth of the river of that name, andproceed along the coast wefind first the Wolof, whoextend to below Cap Verde,then a number of tribes, Bul-lom, Bissago, Felup, Serer, Timni, tobeyond Sherbro Island ; then for a shortdistance on the coast Mandingo, whoseterritory in the backland stretches sixhundred miles east and west, and three Pli„!o.;rafh Iy Sir H. H. JcluiUcn. GXM.G^ K.CK. SANGE : A MANDINGO WOMAN. Note tKe corkscrew curl above the ear. Clothed and Unclothed Classes.
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KABINDA LADY: WEST AFRICA.Drawn by Norman H, Hardy THE \\EST COAST OF AFRICA 335 hundred north and south ; there, too, arc theMendi, the Gora, and the Vai, and otherMohammedanised peoples, who are char-acterised by ample clothing ; beyond themare the Kru, famous as the boatmen ofWest Africa, and, like sailors elsewhere, inthe past if not in the present, lovers ofstrong drink ; with the Grebo and other oftheir neighbours they are characterised byan almost complete absence of clothing,and the costume of a Kru maiden is oftenno more than a string of beads with a tinybeadwork square of leather or cloth infront. Between the Kru and the Mandingoof the backlands come the Kpwesi, of whomlittle is known ; and intermingled with theMandingo are the important Fula people,also Mohammedan, a cross perhaps betweenthe negro and Libyan invaders in the dimprehistoric period, and themselves givingbirth, it may be, by further crossing, to thealready mentioned Mandingo. As regards looks, a question which

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