The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (17538875184)


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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: [1918 c1900-[1918]] (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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A CHINESE MOTHER WITH HER TWO CHILDREN Note the bound feet of the woman. The practice of binding the feet of girl children is probably declining in the coast provinces, but in Yunnan it is still almost universal. Little girls less than eight or nine years old play happily in the streets, but as they grow older, they sit on the doorsteps, their faces twisted in pain, holding their tortured feet. In Yunnan not even the women of the coolie class are exempt, and one sees them hobbling about in the fields, barely able to walk on their peglike feet 528

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