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Great Benin; its customs, art and horrors (1903)

Roth, H. Ling (Henry Ling), 1854-1925 · Halifax, Eng., F. King & Sons, ltd. · leaf 36

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the needle so that the under garment is visible through the upper one.As to the poor people, they only wear a single piece of cloth over their naked body.The women wear on the lower portion of their bodies, a blue skirt reaching to theankles, and some w^ear small pieces of cloth across their… … Fig. 12.—Coral Bead Apron. i6 x 27^in. (40 x 70 cm.) British Museum. amongst them wear, first, a white calico, or cotton cloth, about one yard long, andhalf as broad, which serves them as drawers ; over that, they wear a finer white cottondress, that is commonly about sixteen or twenty yards long,…

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