VI CONTENTS 



Disease and its treatment — Continued. Tagt 



Prophylaxis 73 



Change from within — Influence from without 77 



Attitude of the community toward the sick 80 



Efficacy of treatment 81 



Tlie medicine man 83 



Different classes 84 



Scope of knowledge 88 



Social status 91 



Professional ethics 93 



The medicine man's fee 95 



Mutual relations 97 



Initiation 99 



Diffusion of knowledge 104 



Succession and inheritance 105 



Skepticism 106 



Attitude toward white culture 107 



Personalities — Individual differences 109 



Birth - 116 



Sexual life 116 



Conception 116 



Abortus — Contraceptives 117 



During pregnancy 118 



Pregnant woman's taboos 120 



Husband's taboos 121 



Partus 122 



Afterbirth 126 



Care for child— Child life 128 



Raising the child to become a witch — Twins 129 



Death and afterlife 131 



Death 131 



Between death and burial 134 



Burial 136 



After burial 138 



Afterlife 140 



The soul 141 



Survival of the soul 142 



Suicide 144 



Tragical deaths 144 



The formulas 144 



Name 144 



Origin 146 



Kinds 146 



Prayers 149 



For protection 149 



For long life 150 



For gathering medicine 150 



Conj urations 151 



For curing 151 



For using tobacco 151 



For examining with the beads 152 



Against witches 152 



Agricultural 152 



For hunting and fishing 153 



