ANTANOSY LADY OF FASHION
Elaborately coiffured, with necklaces festooning her tastefully-draped,
flowered gown, this Antanosy woman would figure well in the drawing-rooms
of any European capital
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DULCET TONES OF THE VALIHA
The valiha is a four-foot length of bamboo, thin strips of the outer
fibre of which are detached and strung over bridges of pumpkin-shell
and plucked with the fingers
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SCAR-ADORNED CONGO GIRL
Yuli Ikelemba girl, showing the oyster-shell ridge cicatrisation of
her tribe. Remarkable also are her spear hairpins of beaten metal,
and her way of wearing them
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