Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1900 — Women of Sumatra. [ARTICLE]

Women of Sumatra.

If the native women of Sumatra have their knees properly covered the rest does not matter. The natives of some Islands off the coast of Guinea wear clothes only when they are going on a journey. Some Indians of Venezuela are ashamed to wear clothes before strangers, as it seems indecent to them to appear unpainted.