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ABOR GRACE UNDRAPED IN THE SERVICE OF AGRICULTURE
She is discarding her blue-and-white striped loin-cloth before beginning
work in the fields, and will toil clad only in her "boyup" or girdle
of brass disks which every Abor girl wears from infancy until she first
becomes a mother. This girl possesses an unusually large collection of
blue and red beads, and her erect bearing is largely due to her practice
of carrying loads on her head
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