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Spinsters Married and Single "Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds" in Dominica as Elsewhere

SPINSTERS MARRIED AND SINGLE

"FINE FEATHERS MAKE FINE BIRDS" IN DOMINICA AS ELSEWHERE

Quicha women carry distaff and spindle with them wherever they go — the former a rough stick, the latter a strip of cane stuck into a potato — and spin whenever their hands are free Confident satisfaction with their physical charms and festival attire is shown in the freedom of pose and the frank regard with which these ladies of Dominica face the camera. Their native island is the largest of the five presidencies in the colony of the Leeward Islands