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111 the southern parts of Canada children of both sexes up to the 
aj>e of five or ten years usually went naked in mild weather. Their 
clothin«: was for protection only, not for modesty, allhougli their 
mothers, like mothers everywhere, often sought to make it decora- 
tived They had more freedom than white children at this period, 
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Interior Salisli Avoinan with l)aby in cradle. 
(Photo hif James Teit.) 
playing in the open air the whole day, although every house and 
every tent kept an open door. There was no wall-paper they could 
damage, no books they might deface, no furniture and very few 
ornaments that they could mar or destroy. Most of the prohibitions 
1 Mrn could ahvay.s appear nakerl witliout offence, and in porne tribes even women. The 
presence or absence of clothing among primitive pcojilcs had little relation to morals. 
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