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Abor Grace Undraped in the Service of Agriculture

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