i'huto by D. W. and A. S. Iddings. Copyright by Keystone View Co. 

 RUMANIAN CHILDREN IN NATIONAL COSTUME 



"The country folks of Rumania cling tenaciously to the national costume ; for the men, 

 white trousers, a long white linen tunic, girded at the waist, embellished on high days and 

 holidays with little sleeveless jackets of bewildering color and embroidery. The womeri on 

 feast days emulate the rainbow in their clothes and bedeck themselves with endless strmgs 

 of coins and necklaces of beads" (see pages 1219-1223). 



THE TAILED PEOPLE OF NIGERIA 



IN THE remote part of northern Ni- 

 geria, not yet under the complete 

 control of the British, there dwell a 

 people whose women wear tails and are 

 proud of them. 



True it is that these tails are not of 

 flesh and blood, but none the less they 

 play an important part in the social life 

 of the people, for they are the outward 

 and visible sign of the matronly dignity. 



V/hen a woman of the Kagoro, Kajji, 

 or of four other neighboring tribes — the 

 Atlakka, Morva, Katab, or the Jaba— be- 

 comes a bride, she puts off forever the 

 simple girdle of twisted grass that, up to 

 that moment, had been her sole adorn- 

 ment, and assumes the apron of leaves 

 and the tremendously significant tail, or 

 kiinnok, as it is called. 



In each of the tribes the kunnok varies 



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