FIGHT FOR MEN
INDIAN WOMEN IN ARGENTINE Boxing matches between Indian women of the Argentine, with men as the issue, were described in New York not long ago by Dr Jules Henry, of the department of anthropology at Columbia University. Dr Henry and his wife recently returned after a year's expedition to the province of Formosa, on the Pilcomayo River, which divides the Argentine and Paraguay in South America, where they lived with a tribe of 500 Pilaga Indians. “Although the women are afraid of their husbands, they will fight with uppercuts, left hooks and right crosses among themselves to keep their men,” Dr Henry said. “Such fights often develop into near free-for-alls between the women of two tribes, but it is all begun with the precision and austerity of a ritual and usually starts with a good old-fashioned female ‘spat.’ Little girls are train to box from childhood, while the boys help their fathers at hunting, and fishing.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1938, Page 5
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