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unmarried women and very often matrons went stark naked. Even 

 amongst the prudish Baganda, who made it a punishable offence at one- 

 time for a man to expose any part of his leg above the knee, the wives 

 of the king would attend at Ids court perfectly naked. Among the 



418. ALUKU WOMAN AND CHILD FROM WAHELAI 



Kavirondo all unmarried girls are completely nude, and although women 

 who have become mothers are supposed to wear a tiny covering before 

 and behind, they very often completely neglect to do so when in their 

 own villages. Yet. as a general rule, among the Nile Negroes, and still 

 more markedly among the Hamites and peoples of Masai stock, the- 



