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Profile of lady 1040 visits

Lady 837 visits

Lady 978 visits

Lady 762 visits

Young lady 299 visits

Winsome look on a young lady 271 visits

Thoughtful look on a young lady 297 visits

Cheeky little smile on a young lady 311 visits

Lady in scarf and hat 521 visits

Young woman 410 visits

Haughty look from a young woman 385 visits

Lady 389 visits

Ladies' Cheeky look while reading the newspaper 508 visits

Three Girls 678 visits

Lady with scarf 397 visits

Young lady seated 392 visits

Young lady with wide-open eyes 511 visits

Young lady 365 visits

Sideways glance 483 visits

Young lady 461 visits

Lady with flowers 406 visits

Flower Child 383 visits

Young lady looking in mirror 376 visits

A young man and his mother walking to church 515 visits

Young boy looking after his sick mother 724 visits

Lady sitting by the side of a man in bed 630 visits

Lady praying beside a bed with a man in it 687 visits

Lady kneeling beside bed with a man in it

Image 4200 831 visits

Lady and boy 534 visits

A woman peeling apples and a man woodworking sit facing each other. Suitable for putting a title in the free space in the picture. 635 visits

Young man kneeling in front of a woman 585 visits

Young lady bursting into tears at some bad news 472 visits

Young lady sitting thoughtfully in an arbor in the garden holding a book 549 visits

It requires from twenty-five to thirty years for an Ishogo woman to be able to build upon her head one of their grotesque head-dresses. The accompanying picture will show you how they look. But you will ask how they can arrange hair in such a manner. I will tell you : A frame is made, and the hair is worked upon it ; but if there is no frame, then they use grass-cloth, or any other stuffing, and give the shape they wish to the head-dress. A well-known hair-dresser, who, by the way, is always a female, is a great person in an Ishogo village, and is kept pretty busy from morning till after-noon. It takes much time to work up the long wool on these negroes' heads, but, when one of these heads of hair, or chignons, is made, it lasts for a long time—sometimes for two or three months—without requiring repair. I need not tell you that after a few weeks the head gets filled with specimens of natural history. A great quantity of palm oil is used in dressing the hair, and, as the natives never wash their heads, the odor is not pleasant. When a woman comes out with a newly-made chignon, the little Ishogo girls exclaim, "When shall I be old enough to wear one of these? How beautiful they are!" Every morning, instead of taking a bath, the Ishogos rub themselves with oil, mixed with a red dye made from the wood of a forest tree. 908 visits

It requires from twenty-five to thirty years for an Ishogo woman to be able to build upon her head one of their grotesque head-dresses. The accompanying picture will show you how they look. But you will ask how they can arrange hair in such a manner. I will tell you : A frame is made, and the hair is worked upon it ; but if there is no frame, then they usd grass-cloth, or any other stuffing, and give the shape they wish to the head-dress. A well-known hair-dresser, who, by the way, is always a female, is a great person in an Ishogo village, and is kept pretty busy from morning till after-noon. It takes much time to work up the long wool on these negroes' heads, but, when one of these heads of hair, or chignons, is made, it lasts for a long time—sometimes for two or three months—without requiring repair. I need not tell you that after a few weeks the head gets filled with specimens of natural history. A great quantity of palm oil is used in dressing the hair, and, as the natives never wash their heads, the odor is not pleasant. When a woman comes out with a newly-made chignon, the little Ishogo girls exclaim, "When shall I be old enough to wear one of these? How beau-tiful they are!" Every morning, instead of taking a bath, the Ishogos rub themselves with oil, mixed with a red dye made from the wood of a forest tree. 929 visits

It requires from twenty-five to thirty years for an Ishogo woman to be able to build upon her head one of their grotesque head-dresses. The accompanying picture will show you how they look. But you will ask how they can arrange hair in such a manner. I will tell you : A frame is made, and the hair is worked upon it ; but if there is no frame, then they usd grass-cloth, or any other stuffing, and give the shape they wish to the head-dress. A well-known hair-dresser, who, by the way, is always a female, is a great person in an Ishogo village, and is kept pretty busy from morning till after-noon. It takes much time to work up the long wool on these negroes' heads, but, when one of these heads of hair, or chignons, is made, it lasts for a long time—sometimes for two or three months—without requiring repair. I need not tell you that after a few weeks the head gets filled with specimens of natural history. A great quantity of palm oil is used in dressing the hair, and, as the natives never wash their heads, the odor is not pleasant. When a woman comes out with a newly-made chignon, the little Ishogo girls exclaim, "When shall I be old enough to wear one of these? How beau-tiful they are!" Every morning, instead of taking a bath, the Ishogos rub themselves with oil, mixed with a red dye made from the wood of a forest tree. 963 visits

The men and women had very different daily tasks. Women took care of the young children; planted, tended and harvested the crops; cooked the meals; and made the pottery, baskets, mats and clothing. Men’s work consisted of housebuilding, canoe-making, and clearing land for gardens, along with defense, hunting, woodcutting, and making the tools for these chores. The men also had primary responsibilities for ritual and political activities. 276 visits

Two ladies in the crowd at the park 391 visits

Two women talking 485 visits

A Lady 599 visits

Lady in house-robe. Period, 1816 1012 visits

The social position of the Niam-niam women differ materially from what is found amongst other negroes in Africa. The Bongo and Mittoo women are on the same familiar terms with the foreigner as the men, and the Monbuttoo ladies are as forward , inquisitive and prying as can be imagined; but the women of the Niam-niam treat every stranger with marked reserve. Whenever I met any women coming along a narrow pathway in the woods or on the steppe, I noticed that they always made a wide circuit to avoid me, and returned into the path further on; and many a time I saw them waiting at a distance with averted face until I had passed by. 1046 visits

Lady looking at herself in a mirror 369 visits

Woman writing letters at cluttered Victorian desk 589 visits

The Two Paths: What Will the Girl Become? At 13 Bad Literature, At 20 Flirting Coquettery, At 26 Fast Life and Dissipation, At 40 An Outcast; At 13 Study & Obedience, At 20 Virtue & Devotion, At 26 A Loving Mother, At 60 An Honored Grandmother 406 visits

Man and woman sitting down talking 769 visits

During the 18th century corsets were largely made from a species of leather known as "Bend," which was not unlike that used for shoe soles, and measured nearly a quarter of an inch in thickness. 747 visits

Depiction of the choice a woman must make in life. 341 visits

A man leaving a house while a woman has a notepad to write something in. 344 visits

Preparing to entertain her lover 458 visits

Mother and daughter 839 visits

Young lady smelling a rose that she has received 601 visits

Young lady writing 573 visits

Joan of Arc 802 visits

A family sitting around reading 1070 visits

animal magnetism is supposed to radiate from and encircle every human being 505 visits

Woman opening the door to find a baby in a basket 337 visits

Two young ladies talking 401 visits

Mother and daughter 491 visits

Children Should be taught early the lessons of Propriety and Good Manners

A man and woman talking 395 visits

A cat eating from the counter while a lady ignores the cat 537 visits

Lady walking with a pitcher of drink 540 visits

Lady and boy discuss a kite 634 visits

Mother and child embrace 938 visits

Rose-Red's mamma gathered her up in her arms and comforted her

Women water carriers 1425 visits

At every available point of the crowded river-front washerwomen, with their petticoats wet to the waist, stood knee-deep in the stream, and accompanied their lively chatter with the vigorous tattoo of their active mallets. In the shadow of the houses near the landing great piles of watermelons were the centres of groups of all ages, every individual busy with the luscious, juicy fruit. 1426 visits