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Photograph from He 



INDIAN MOTHER AND BABE: PANAMA 



elisario Porras 



The Cuna-Cuna, or Tule Indians of the San Bias coast of Panama, are of the purest aboriginal 

 strain. For hundreds of years they have resisted amalgamation, and woe to the Cuna-Cuna belle who 

 looks with favor upon a " foreign " lover. They are an intelligent race and are not savages by any 

 means — even though nose rings are a part of the adornment of all members of the gentler sex, who 

 wear them from the time they begin to walk. 



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