Mapuche Machis (2) - A group of women standing next to each other

Identifier: womenofallnation01joyc

Title: Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence;

Year: 1908 (1900s)

Authors: Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868-

Subjects: Women

Publisher: London, New York [etc.] : Cassell and Company, limited

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ARAUCANIAN INDIANS.The woman in the foreground is wearing the characteristic large silver ear-ornamenls. 37^ WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS Indians carried most of their goods—and seems to show that the parents and child are especially the weapons—into the open air, regarded as unclean—hence the bath. The and asked me to do the same—or at any abstinence from food, the censing of the rate to take the guns out. This I did path and the water, and the removal of readily; then all the others left the house, the goods, and especially of the weapons,

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Hy ccii>\t-!y of Ih.e South AuiericaJt Missionary Society* MAPUCHE (SOUTH CHILI) MEDICINE WOMENWith the symbols of iheir profession. A BirthFast. and a singular procession wended its wayto the river. In front marched the motherof the husband, smoking red-hotcoals on a potsherd before her,which she fanned to spread thesmoke about her. Behind her came theyoung mother with the child, and she wasfollowed by the happy father. The grand-mother censed the whole strand, then em-barked in a canoe, and treated the waterlikewise. Then parents and child bathed,and returned home, and the grandmotherbrought them a potful of fish, their firstsoUd food for five days. I saw a similarperformance among the Kobeua later. This Diet ofParents, are meant to save the new arrival fromharmful influences. Among the Maxuruna the young mothermay not eat monkeys ; her chief article ofdiet is the Hocco fowl. TheCulino, too, restrict the mothersdiet, but compel the father topractise complete abstinence for the fi

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