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SUPPER IS READY FOR HER MAN AND CHILDREN
| The plump, smiling, black housewife, fully arrayed in her evening attire of double necklace and wire and copper bangles, has her pot on the fire, full of cassava-bread, savoury caterpillars, and plantains. Proud she is of her find of fat caterpillars — such a change from the ordinary vegetables. The family will be delighted, and joyfully she awaits their return |
WOMEN GRINDING THE CORN THEY HAVE GROWN
| These two wives are painfully grinding Indian corn for their husband's repast. How little can be ground at a time is shown by the few seeds on the nether stone. Men are so busy over fetish, hunting, beer, and palaver, that to women falls the hard work. So the more wives a negro purchases, the more luxuriously is he able to live |