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Titre : Annual report of the Bureau of American ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian institution

Auteur : Bureau of American ethnology (Washington, D.C.). Auteur du texte

Éditeur : Government printing office (Washington)

Date d'édition : 1916

Contributeur : Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902). Directeur de publication

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Description : 1916

Description : 1916 (N38)-1917.

Description : Note : Index.

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count and threatening the other women with dire punishment if they dared go and do likewise (G, i, 189-190). At the present day among the Kobeua (Betoya stock) of the Uaupes River it is the second twin that is immediately killed a,fter birth, and then and there buried; but if the infants are of dînèrent sexes it is the female that is sacrificed (KG, 11, 146). Schomburgk admits that he could not leam anything of the practice of destroying one out of every birth of twins, as had been mentioned by Humboldt (ScF, 219) and as to the Makusi and Waika, he distinctly denies thé existence of such a practice (SR, 11, 313). The infanticide of a twin or abnormal child was likewise practiced by their kinsfolk, the Surinam Carib. In the former case it was a sign of her adultery, in the latter it pointed to its being the onspring of thé Snake Spirit (PEN, i, 158). Van Berkel mentions the custom on the Essequibo, in the case, apparently, of an Arawaktwin (BER, 57). Barrère, in writing onthe CayenneIndians, says that as soon as a child is born its fate is decided; if anything is wrong with it it is killed and buried without pity; hence, no dwarfs, hunchbacks, lame, and crippled are to be seen (PBA, 227). So also, on the Orinoco, Gumilla has recorded that if an infant is born with any defect or monstrosity, minus a. hand or foot, or with a harelip, as commonly happens, the 'child, boy or girl, is put to death without any objections being raised (G, n, 61). On the other hand, there is no less an authority than Schomburgk for the statement that the practice was not so general among the savages of Guiana as had been supposed (ScF, 219). All the same it is very uncommon to see an Indian either lame or deformed (BA, 331). T30. As one of the principal causes of the depopulation of the Orinoco lands, Gumilla mentioned the practice of destroying the girls soon after they were born. 1 do not mean," he says, that the crime of infanticide is common among ail the savage women, for there are many who bring up their little girls with as much affection as their boys, but yet such women are not stunciently numerous to influence.the many who practice it, with the result that infanticide still proves no inconsiderable factor in the diminution of a tribe. Those women who practice it, defend it on the score of love and affection. They recognize the hardship of their own lot, as compared with the opposite sex, and maintain that they only treat their little babies as they wish their own mothers had treated them. The practice is not universal amongst ail these Orinoco nations, but though it dominates in them, there are many exceptions, especially where the husbands treat their wives decently. When committed, it is eifeeted immediately after birth, by breaking the baby's neck, by forcibly pressing on its breastbone, or by cutting the string too near the navel, so as to prevent its being tied and so bleeding to death, or without hurting it at ail, as some say, by burying it alive (G, 11, 60-63).