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A LAKE DWELLER

Dull, heavy faces are common among the women of the Indian races who live in pile dwellings around Lake Maracaibo

WOMEN OF THE MARQUIRITARE TRIBE

Near relatives of, if not identical with, the Waiomgomo, the Marquiritare occupy remote parts of the hinterland of Guyana. Convention makes little or no demand upon them and a practical absence of dress is one of their tribal characteristics