I was told that because shutter speeds were slower in the early days of photography that photographers required their subjects to stand still for long periods of time to expose the image to the film negative, hence so many photos from the 1800's to 1900's without smiles in them! How can this be when my people did not travel in those days? Our favorite celebs are freeing the nipple on the regular these days.
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They usually owned the home along with everything in it, and in some tribes, while the chief was a man, it was the women who were responsible for electing him.