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Originally Posted by Martin1976

Yes. Bora women went completely naked in the past, but only the women were completely naked. Men and boys wore loincloths. This This custom (women and girls nude, men and boys clothed) was also widespread among other tribes in the North-west Amazon (northern Peru, southeastern Colombia, northwestern Brazil) and it was also very common cusom in many other tribes in other parts of South America. Of course not with all but in North-west Amazon was similar custom the most widespread. There it was the custom of practically all the tribes in the area. All or almost all tribes in that area was CMNF (Clothed Male Naked Female) even in the first decades of the 20th century. This is also evidenced by many foreign travelers who visited the indigenous tribes in the area. For example, according to the book of the British traveler Thomas Whiffen, who visited several indigenous tribes in the northwestern Amazon region in 1908 and 1909 and published a book about his journey in 1915. The women and girls of all the tribes he visited were completely naked and all men were clothed and boys were clothed from the age of five. Most often in loincloths. And he wrote about the tribes south of the Japura river :"All the tribes on the right or south bank of the Japura follow the fashion of the Boro; the men wear only breech-cloths, the women go absolutely naked." And about tribes north of the Japurá River he wrote "The women wear nothing" hile the men and boys were dressed while the men and boys there were always dressed. And among the men from the tribes to the north of Japurá River it was not only loincloths, but long shirts or loin-cloths with an apron to the knees etc. while women and girls were always nude.

Such a shame that these traditions disappear once western culture gets anywhere near.