... , spankings were administered to both sexes as a wish for long life. Superstitions about babies include ways to predict the sex of the unborn child. Supposedly, a baby carried high will be a girl, while one carried low will be a boy. Also, the wedding ring of the mother-to-be can be used as a predictor of the gender of the unborn child. In this ... ...

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... objects representing the Neolithic through the present, of which half are Chinese, the remainder mostly Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian. John Listopad, Patrick J.J. Maveety Curator of Asian Art Unmarried Surma Girl, Ethiopia Photograph, 1986 Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher Reprinted with Permission of the Brooklyn Museum of Art Body Painting The most common form of artistic expression among the Surma people ... ...

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