. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . s even more important as motherCustoms ^^ ^^^ children, for that is her natural province, and she alonehas the care and education of the before the little stranger puts in anappearance, its parents are concerned forits health. Spix and Martins found thediet of parents before the birth of a childstrictly regulated in some BraziHan abstain from the meat of certain both husband and wife, who live only onfungi, ants, and guarana. The purpose ofthis abstinence is to prevent
. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . s even more important as motherCustoms ^^ ^^^ children, for that is her natural province, and she alonehas the care and education of the before the little stranger puts in anappearance, its parents are concerned forits health. Spix and Martins found thediet of parents before the birth of a childstrictly regulated in some BraziHan abstain from the meat of certain both husband and wife, who live only onfungi, ants, and guarana. The purpose ofthis abstinence is to prevent the bad qualitiesof the various animals from being impartedto the child through their persons. Amonth before birth a Kobeua woman eatsall kinds of birds and fish save the silurusfirarara, enjoyment of which would entailmany ill consequences. .^11 four-footedanimals are forbidden to her. Birth takes place cither in the hut itselfor in a hut a little removed from the ordinaryone, or else in the forest; it is accompaniedby usages which seem peculiar to theEuropean. \\allace says of the Uaupes: The. A FAMILY OF ARAUCANIANS (CHILI).Showing a baby strapped in a native cradle. animals for a time, and hve chiefly on fruits women are generally delivered in the house,and tish. Among the Mauhe pregnancy in- though sometimes in the forest. When avolves a considerable amount of fasting for birth takes place in the house, everything 374 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS is taken out of it, even the pots and pansand bows and arrows, till the next day ;the mother takes the child to the river «^^ •*?:
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