In Moruland, Emin Bey remarked that women are mostly naked, but some wear a girdle, with a few leaves hanging behind. The women of some negro tribes, who thus cover themselves behind, if deprived of this sole covering, immediately throw themselves on the ground on their backs, in order to hide their nakedness.
E.g., Letourneau, L'Evolution de la Morale, p. 146.
Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, p. 683.