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BUREAU OF AMEEICAN ETHNOLOGY 



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Among the Pima women detailed inquiry as to the appearance of 

 sufficient milk and the feeding of infants pending its appearance was 

 made as among the San Carlos Apache, with the following result: 



Pima 



Women could begin to nurse after birth of child — 



Two at once; nursed older child up to the time of labor 



Two at once, had milk licforc (iclivcry 



One after 3 hours 



One after 6 hours 



Two after 10 hours 



One after 12 hours 



One after 15 hours 



One after 20 hours 



One after 20 hours 



Two after 1 day (24 hours) 



One after 28 hours 



One after 36 hours 



One after 40 hours 



One after 2 days (48 hours) 



One after 3 days 



One after 3 days 



One after 4 days 



One after 4 days 



Cow's milk. 

 Weak black coffee. 

 Cow's milk. 



CO 

 (?) 



Condensed milk. 

 Cow's milk, 

 do. 



One after 4 days Nursed l>y another. 



One after 4 days Cow's milk. 



One after 4 days j Condensed milk. 



One after 5 days Cow's milk. 



One after 6 days Condensed milk. 



One after ti days do. 



Child fed meantime on- 



A little warm water. 



Cases in which three or more days elapsed before the mother could 

 nurse the child were remarkably numerous. The author suspected 

 that, especially because of the frequent occurrence of the number 

 four, in some cases the belated nursing was due to observances con- 

 nected with that number, but this was always denied by the women. 



Some of the Pima feed the child on fruit and other things from 

 the time it is about 4 or 5 months old. Occasionall}^ they even let it 

 suck a piece of meat. The youngest of the children examined who 

 were fed in addition to being nursed were a boy of 7h months, fed 

 since he was about 4^ months of age, and a girl of 7 months and 6 

 days, fed since she was 6j months old (for details see Appendix) . A 

 very remarkable authentic case of prolonged nursing was met with in 

 this tribe. The present teacher at Casa Blanca, a full -blood Pima, 

 was nursed till he was 7 years old, even after he went to school. His 

 mother became a widow when he was a baby, and she wanted to 

 nurse him as long as she could 'Ho give him all the good possible." 



The Papago l)al)y is usually nursed until dentition begins, when 

 the mother gives it in addition portions of almost everything she her- 

 self eats. Nursing is often prolonged. 



