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Updated: May 29, 2025
In the Marquesas Islands, the use of canoes in all parts of the islands is rigorously prohibited to women, for whom it is death even to be seen entering one when hauled on shore; while Tapa-making, which belongs exclusively to women, is taboo to men. Among the Betchuanas of South Africa the men will not let women touch the cattle.
If you think for a moment, you will see that to adopt civilized habits was for them to make a prodigious change in their ways of life. Formerly the maro and the slight covering of the tapa alone shielded them from the sun and rain. Their bodies became hardy by exposure. Their employments fishing, taro-planting, tapa-making, bird-catching, canoe-making were all laborious, and pursued out-of-doors.
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