re your toothbrush, your hairbrush, your pyjamas?
The Mäori hierarchy of restrictions generally saw the head as being extremely 'tapu', and this is still today reflected in general discomfort for Mäori in seeing a picture of a head, disconnected from the body. With my ECE students, I make links with images of the female breast, which can be a visual message of beauty and comfort within EC settings in the context of breastfeeding, but which sends altogether different cultural messages, when detached from a woman's head.
All cultures that I know about have had very firm 'tapu' or restrict
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