English: Identifier: womenofallnation01joyc

Title: Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; Year: 1908 (1900s) Authors: Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868- Subjects: Women Publisher: London, New York [etc.] : Cassell and Company, limited Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Text Appearing Before Image: IhoCograpit by O. Kurkiijian. JAVANESE WEAVER.The loom is fastened to a frame, and the threads are kept taut by means of a band passing round the weavers back. The man on the right is winding thread. 24 •9^ ^*5^:

Text Appearing After Image: HOUSES OF ABORIGINES NEAR LUBO KLUBI. ULU LANGAT. SELANGOR. MALAY THE PENINSULA By W. W. SKEAT Environment and Race—Food and Cookery—Dress in ■klalaya—The National Costume—MalayanCoiffures—Miscellaneous Fashions—Negrito and Sakai Dress—Home-life of Malay Women—The\\o\\l of Malay Women—Birth Superstitions and Ceremonies—The Moon and its Influences—Malayan Childhood—How the Malayan Girl Comes Out —Malayan Beauty—Malayan MarriageCeremonies—Bride Hunting—Mohammedan Influence on Malay Women—West Coast MarriageCustoms—The Bridal Costume^Bride and Bridegrooms Race for Supremacy—Funeral Cere-monies—Curious Types of Malayan Women TO obtain an idea of the present en-vironment of woman in the GoldenChersonese (the old and more poeticname of the Malay Peninsula) we may thinkof what Great Britain must have been in very early days when theEnvironment t-> ^ ^ j j and Race Koman power extended o\-er the greater portion of the countr}^, more especially that

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