Namboothri men generally wear waist strings even as adults.
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Corry writes, " In his photos of the Waorani Indians of Ecuador, he has them unclothed except for their traditional waist string.
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In real life, contacted Waorani have routinely worn clothes for at least a generation, unless, that is, they are'dressing up'for tourists . [ & ] His Waorani female models have now preserved their modesty by tying'fig'leaves into their waist string, which they would never have done formerly : the images look like a throwback to a past era, but they're also a contemporary invention ."