^ Anthropology : Social 



to cyo into another house in the same village or in one adjoining 

 that in which thev ordinarily dwell. Amongst the Kru people, 

 however, women are crenerally confined in their own homes. 

 Those that go out into the bush for delivery are frequendy alone 

 and unattended, but where the birth takes place in a hut there 



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is generally present some old woman as a midwife, usually one 

 of the old women connected with the girls' bush school, or 

 else a companion or friend of the wife who was her school-mate 

 in those institutions. No man is ever permitted to be present 

 at child-birth or (in most cases) to see the woman for several 



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