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
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jiiotoi^rafit i-y li. It. /-;,-/>./.. RESPECTABLE MARRIEDWOMAN OF KELANTAN. Dressed in a flowered strong girtabout the breasts with a broadsash (kain lepas) of a Kelanlancheck pattern. THE MALAY PENINSULA 191 plays quite so prominent a role as in forms of construction even in the forest, and Burma and Siam, where the women the Malays do not, as a rule, abandon generally form the business portion their pile-dwellings on mo\-ing inland,of the community, and not infrequently support the men. The Malays being a Among the agricultural Malays, the men riverain and coastal race, their habitations perform the tasks that recjuire their strength,

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rk.>..^>\i/-/i ry //. //; y.;..//jWOMAN OF LOOSE CHARACTER OF KELANTAN ANDHER CHILDREN.The sarongs, except ihat of the big girl, are of local make. take the form of pile-chvcllings. The objectof this form of structure is, in all probability,to allow the waters of the incoming tide toperform their priest-like task of pureablution in respect of the ground under-neath it, which not infrequently servesas a depository of rubbish. On the other which takes place when many weeks ofhand, the plan of raising the house floor on vertical sun-blaze have sulhciently driedhigh posts has distinct advantages over other the piled-up timber. In the plains the rice- and the women take the work for whichtheir slighter and less sturdy build may seemto be adapted. The felhngThe Work having been completed, theyof Malay , ? , , 1 Women. 1P the boughs and prepare the fallen trees for the burn, 192 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS crop (wet padi) is usually grown onthe irrigation system ; that is to say, ingreat squa

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