If the native women of Sumatra have their knees properly covered the rest does not matter. The natives of some islands off the coast of Guinea wear clothes only when they nre going on a journey. Some Indians of Venezuela are ashamed to wear clothes before strangers, as it seems indecent to them to appear impainted.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue V, 30 July 1898, Page 148
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