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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into fashion.In Patani andSingora, on theeast coast,where Siameseinfluence is nowparamount, thequaint butrichly-colourednational g a r- RESPECTABLE MARRIEDWOMAN OF KELANTAN. Wearing the broad sash (ksin lepas)about the breasts and skirt con-sisting of a flowered surong ofTrengganu make. ment of the Siamese, thepanmmg, is fairly generallyworn, and almost anv morn-ing the yellow-robed Samior Siamese priests may beseen going on their roundsto collect the alms of tliepious. The Negrito women, whenthey wear anything at all,put on wonder-ful fringed girdleswo\en from the

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leaves and flowers and high fantastic head-dresses of woven leaf or bark. Back-combswith magical designs are worn in the hair,and porcupines quills through the nose andsometimes through the ear-lobes (by theSakai women), whilst metal-ring armlets,bracelets, and necklaces, consisting of manystrings of animals tails and tufts 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

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