WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS 



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A NORWEGIAN GIRL SKI-ING 

 Photo from "Women of All Nations," Cassell & Co., New York, by A. B. Wilse, Christiania 



freedom they enjoy as maidens. A 

 widow inherits all her husband's prop- 

 erty on the condition she does not re- 

 marry, and, at her husband's death, she 

 is called upon to state whether or not 

 she intends to do so ! Should she retain 

 the property and afterwards remarry, the 

 case is arranged among the relatives, but 

 formerly she was put to death by her 

 husband's relatives. 



Most of the tribes bury their dead, and 

 in the funeral ceremonies a woman's 

 basket and weaving-sticks are placed over 

 the grave. The dead are buried either 

 in the village street or outside the village 

 bounds. In some tribes the corpse of a 

 child or young girl is buried in the 

 earthen floor of the house, and a pathetic 

 reason for this custom was given to a 

 government official by a Naga who had 



