Ch.+14+Role+of+women

- all women were expected to work, even the wives of wealthy men
 * __Role of women__**

- women who worked hard would be appreciated and their husband would show their appreciation by giving them a gift, most of the time it was clothing (some like the picture to the right)

- the families practice polygyny, which is when the husband had more then one wife

- a successful man marries as many wives as he can support

- every wife is given a piece of land to do their farming so they can prepare meals

- in this generation Christian and civil marriages are held

- when the wife or mother gets older and her children grow up she will look for a spouse for them

- choosing a girl for the boy to marry is important for a mother because the girl is generally expected to live with the mother for the first few months of the two's marriage until the couple can set up a household and farmland

- the girl is expected to serve the mother while she lives with her

- the heade pieces on the top of the women in both the pictures are called head ties

- the outfits they have on are their more fancy clothes that they would wear to special events

- Igbo women love to dance, there is a video of them dancing on the bottom of the page



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__Bibliography__

//Igbo//. Web. 6 Nov. 2009. .

//Women's Work//. Glam Family. Web. 2 Nov. 2009. [].

//Igbo - Marriage and Family//. Web. 6 Nov. 2009. [].

//Igbo People//. Matt VanderSluis. Web. 6 Nov. 2009. .