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Volume 5 27 |
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REAL WEEDS FOR WIDOWS |
DOYEN OF AN UP-RIVER TRIBE |
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| In token of bereavement, Papuan widows wear a short bodice of plaited grass which leaves the stomach bare, and a still scantier skirt of bunches of grass in front and behind | Age overtakes Papuans very rapidly, and in many districts a man of forty-five is a rarity. The oldest member of his tribe, this patriarch carries a wooden instead of a stone club |