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National Geographic : 1911 Jan
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WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS 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
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