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
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of fur,teeth, seeds, beads, coins, and small bonesform nart of the indispensable rig-out ofa Sakai belle. Among the civilised Malaypeasantry tlie proper sphereof womans in-Home Life fliience is stillof Malay . , , , Women. considered to be tlie home, al-though in the Europeanisedsettlements and in someparts of the east coast, in RESPECTABLE MARRIEDWOMAN OF KELANTAN. Wearing k3.m lepas (a broad sash),draped about the breasts [kainkernba.rC, over a flowered sarong,flowers in hair. Negrito andSakai Dress cleverlyintertwinedblack, shiny, root-hlce strings of a particularkind of fungus. Elsewhere among the Sakaiand Jakun the loin-cloth of beaten tree-barkis worn almost uni\-ersally by the men, anda kind of short bark-cloth apron by thewomen, except where the Malay sarong isfound. On festal occasions they all deckthemselves out like Jacks-in-the-green, with spite of all fan-aticism can do,a considerableamount of in-dependence isallowed her;but even inthose parts oftlie Peninsulawoman seldom
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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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