"The children are industrious and patient little creatures, the boys assisting their elders in farming and , and the girls performing their share of domestic duties. A marked trait is their loving-kindness and care for younger brothers and sisters. Every little girl has her own water vase as soon as she is old enough to accompany her mother to the river in capacity of assistant water-carrier, and thus they begin at a very early age to poise the vase, Egyptian fashion, on their heads."
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Matilda Coxe Stevenson
(née Matilda Coxe Evans; sometimes published as Tilly E. Stevenson; May 12, 1849 – June 24, 1915), was an American anthropologist, , geologist, explorer, and activist for women's rights. A pioneer in the use of photography in ethnology, she was the first woman employed by the (BAE). In 1893 she was elected a Fellow of the .
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