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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

The Tasmanian aborigines didn’t wear clothes, and neither did the Tierra Del Fuego Indians, even though both lived in extremely cold Winter climates. They would lather grease all over their bodies, like long distance swimmers, to keep warm when it got too cold.

Maybe they hated lice more than cold.


48 posted on 01/07/2011 3:39:04 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must-like men-undergo the fatigue of supporting it)
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To: Alas Babylon!
"The Tasmanian aborigines didn’t wear clothes, and neither did the Tierra Del Fuego Indians, even though both lived in extremely cold Winter climates. They would lather grease all over their bodies, like long distance swimmers, to keep warm when it got too cold."

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt commented about two groups of humans who lived at Tierra Del Fuego when he visited there by ship.
One group was short, heavy set and wore few clothes and made their living from the sea. The other people were tall and thin, wore animal skins and made their living on land.

49 posted on 01/07/2011 3:48:12 AM PST by blam
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>> Tasmanian aborigines didn’t wear clothes

Well they can go to the devil. ‘Cause that’s just wrong!


51 posted on 01/07/2011 7:04:53 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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