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the regions of Africa visited by the writer of this book, or described by 

 other observers, a neglect of decency in the male has only been recorded 

 .among the Efik people of Old Calabar. The nudity of women is another 







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417. MAI II WOMAN* POUNDING CORN IN A WOODEN MORTAR 



question. In parts of West Africa between the Niger and the Gaboon 

 (especially on the Cameroons River, at Old Calabar, and in the Niger 

 Delta) it is — or was — customary for young women to go about completely 

 nude before they are married. Jn Swaziland, until quite recently. 



