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Caption says, "Araucanian women (Chili) spinning and weaving at their primitive form of loom".

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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
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oper shape. When the dancers andother performers approach, the womenhastilv disappear into their huts, and thereput out all fires. If any of them were sounfortunate as to catch a gUmpse of thebark trumpets, the Kamutshi issued fromtheir lair, penetrated into the body of thewoman, according to the native account,and never failed to bring about her death. When some kinds of palm fruits are ripe,tribes on the Isana, Uaupes, and south-wards as far as the Yapura, celebrate afestival to the honour of a hero, in whichare used instruments in every way similarto those described. Participation in thefestival is the privilege of the adult males,and they submit to severe mortificationsand castigations. Even the initiation intothis secret society is preceded, as I noticedon the Uaupes, by painful flagellationsand privations. No female of any agemay be present at the festival, nor evensmall boys ; if they so much as see theinstrument, the spirit kills them, or, in otherwords, they are put to death.
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390 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS The Tariana tribe on the Uaupes has the In the basin of the Xingu, women are same festival, and the men wear a kind of likewise strictly prohibited from seeing themask woven of human and monkey hair, masked dances ; the house in which the

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