English: Identifier: womenofallnation01joyc
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
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L ■^ *i TANJONG WOMEN (SARAWAK, BORNEO) Weaving baskets of bemban grass. The second woman from the right and the woman on the left wear heavybrass ear-rings, which have pulled the lobes of the ears into long loops. 172 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS threaded innumerable little brass rings; ment until some days or perhaps weeksthe circles are pinned together with brass have elapsed. Since, in addition to therods, and the whole forms a more or less rawai, a Sea-Dayak belle will have also herflexible cylinder, which is worn round the arms and the lower parts of her legs encasedbust and waist. Sometimes this corset is in coils of brass wire, her dead weight is somewhat considerable when aU her finery isworn, and it has happened more than oncethat such a brass-bound beauty, falling intoa river from a bridge or through the capsizingof a canoe, has been drowned, notwith-standing her admirable swimming powers. The corset worn by the Indonesian Land- Dayaks* still more recalls a strait-jacket, for it
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