 | Charles Henry Eden - 1879 - 336 páginas
...up for the impressive occasion. Their superstitions are curious, and in one instance barbarous, for when a woman is about to give birth to a child, she is thrust out of her habitation, and ejected from the village, to take care of herself until the infant... | |
 | Royal Society of South Australia - 1892 - 836 páginas
...be observed in the life and the habits of this peculiar and in many respects incomprehensible race. When a woman is about to give birth to a child she is takeu away from the men, and is attended by another woman, generally an old one, who looks after her... | |
 | 1894 - 920 páginas
...proves sterile, there is no marriage and she wanders about from place to place and from man to man. When a woman is about to give birth to a child she...and help her, but if the baby's cries are not heard, that house will not be entered again. The common impression is that aboriginal women give birth to... | |
 | 1894 - 940 páginas
...proves sterile, there is no marriage and she wanders about from place to place and from raan to man. When a woman is about to give birth to a child she...and help her, but if the baby's cries are not heard, that house will not be entered again. The common impression is that aboriginal women give birth to... | |
 | Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke - 1903 - 622 páginas
...those who were invested with the Grand Cross, with branches of trees" (pp. 112-113). The Hose. — " When a woman is about to give birth to a child she sends to one of her neighbours for the loan of a withered flower called the 'passion flower,' which... | |
 | Knud Rasmussen - 1908 - 608 páginas
...they say themselves, has bequeathed to them. At childbirth the following rules must be observed : — When a woman is about to give birth to a child, she must move out of the house that she inhabits with her husband. If it be summer-time, a little tent... | |
 | Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - 2003 - 634 páginas
...child that they will live until he can marry them and then he will be compelled to do so. In Malta, when a woman is about to give birth to a child, she sends to one of her neighbors for the loan of a withered flower called the "passion flower," which... | |
 | New York Obstetrical Society - 1894 - 428 páginas
...proves sterile, there is no marriage and she wanders about from place to place and from man to man. When a woman is about to give birth to a child she...and help her, but if the baby's cries are not heard, that house will not be entered again. The common impression is that aboriginal women give birth to... | |
 | 1894 - 208 páginas
...the girls attain their size early, they do not menstruate until the age of nineteen or twenty years. When a woman is about to give birth to a child she is put into a house and given frozen meat sufficient to last for two weeks and also some blubber and oil.... | |
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... to man. When a woman is about to give birth to a child she is put in a house and given frozen meat sufficient to last for two weeks and also some blubber and oil. If she survives the ordeal and the baby is heard to cry, the others will come in and... 