Man and woman : a study of human secondary sexual characters / by Havelock Ellis.

  • Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939.
Date:
1894
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    men to undergo prolonged and more passive exertion, and they are the universal primitive carriers. Thus, among the Andombies on the Congo, according to Mr. H. H. Johnstone, the women, though working very hard as carriers, and as labourers in general, lead an entirely happy existence; they are often stronger than the men and more finely developed, some of them, he tells us, having really splendid figures. And Parke, speaking of the Manyuema of the Arruwimi in the same region, says that they are fine animals, and the women very handsome; “they carry loads as heavy as those of the men, and do it quite as well.”^ In North America, again, an Indian chief said to Hearne, “ Women were made for labour; one of them can carry, or haul, as much as two men can do.”^ Schellong, who has carefully studied the Papuans in the German protectorate of New Guinea from the anthropological point of view, considers that the women are more strongly built than the men.^ In Central Australia, again, the men occasionally beat the women through jealousy, but on such occasions it is by no means rare for the woman, single-handed, to beat the man severely.'* At Cuba the women fought beside the men, and enjoyed great independence. Among some races of India, the Pueblos of North America, the Patagonians, the women are as large as the men. So among the Afghans, with whom the women in certain tribes enjoy a considerable amount of power. Even among the Arabs and Druses it has been noted that the women are nearly as large as the men. And among 1 T. H. Parke, Experiences in Equatorial Africa, 1891, p. 344. ^ Hearne, quoted by Bancroft, Native Races, etc., vol. i. p. 117. The chief added: “ They also pitch our tents, make and mend our cloth- ing, keep us warm at night; and in fact there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance in this country without their assist- ance.” ^ Schellong, “Beitrage zur Anthropologic der Papuas,” Zeitschrift fHr Ethnologic, Heft iv., 1891, p. 173. ^ Journal Anthropological Institute, August 1890, p. 61.