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  THE 
  ARAUCANIANS 
  — 
  COOPER 
  

  

  733 
  

  

  feast, 
  in 
  more 
  recent 
  times 
  at 
  least, 
  a 
  white 
  lamb 
  was 
  sacrificed, 
  some 
  

   of 
  its 
  blood 
  sprinkled 
  in 
  the 
  four 
  cardinal 
  directions, 
  and 
  the 
  rest 
  

   poured 
  into 
  a 
  hole 
  in 
  the 
  ground 
  where 
  the 
  severed 
  umbilical 
  cord 
  was 
  

   deposited. 
  South 
  of 
  Tolten, 
  a 
  tree 
  was 
  planted 
  at 
  the 
  name-giving 
  

   feast 
  of 
  a 
  male 
  child. 
  The 
  name 
  of 
  a 
  female 
  child 
  could 
  not 
  be 
  men- 
  

   tioned 
  lest 
  she 
  die. 
  (On 
  kuga 
  names, 
  see 
  supra 
  under 
  Kinship, 
  p. 
  723.) 
  

   Two 
  types 
  of 
  cradle 
  were 
  used 
  (fig. 
  78): 
  a 
  portable 
  one, 
  of 
  two 
  

   longitudinal 
  arms 
  connected 
  with 
  boards 
  or 
  else 
  a 
  netted 
  frame, 
  with 
  

   bow; 
  and 
  a 
  swinging 
  "hammock" 
  type 
  (illustrated 
  in: 
  Smith, 
  1855, 
  

   p. 
  213; 
  Latcham, 
  1909, 
  pis. 
  34-35; 
  cf. 
  Moesbach, 
  1936, 
  pp. 
  186-88 
  

   for 
  description) 
  . 
  

  

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  Figure 
  78. 
  — 
  Mapuche 
  cradles. 
  (After 
  Smith, 
  1855, 
  p. 
  213.) 
  

  

  After 
  childbirth, 
  cohabitation 
  of 
  husband 
  with 
  wife 
  was 
  not 
  resumed 
  

   until 
  weaning, 
  which 
  did 
  not 
  take 
  place 
  until 
  all 
  the 
  child's 
  teeth 
  were 
  

   cut 
  (Latcham, 
  1909, 
  p. 
  360), 
  or 
  until 
  a 
  year 
  after 
  birth 
  or, 
  if 
  the 
  child 
  

   was 
  weak, 
  18 
  months 
  or 
  more 
  (Claude 
  Joseph, 
  1933-34, 
  p. 
  713). 
  

  

  Both 
  abortion 
  and 
  infanticide 
  occurred, 
  but 
  how 
  commonly 
  is 
  not 
  

   clear. 
  Gusinde 
  (1936, 
  passim) 
  lists 
  about 
  a 
  dozen 
  different 
  plant 
  

   abortifacients. 
  Deformed 
  offspring 
  and 
  one 
  of 
  twins 
  were 
  done 
  away 
  

   with, 
  by 
  being 
  thrown 
  into 
  the 
  water 
  or 
  suffocated 
  with 
  mud 
  (Guevara 
  

   Silva, 
  1929, 
  2:241-42; 
  1908, 
  p. 
  222). 
  Felix 
  Jose 
  (1916, 
  1:91) 
  fists 
  the 
  

   verb 
  koftun, 
  meaning 
  to 
  kill 
  an 
  infant 
  and 
  roast 
  its 
  testicles 
  in 
  a 
  

   heated 
  pot, 
  as 
  done 
  sometimes 
  by 
  an 
  unmarried 
  mother 
  to 
  avenge 
  

   herself 
  on 
  her 
  unfaithful 
  lover 
  — 
  so 
  making 
  him 
  impotent 
  (Guevara 
  

   Silva, 
  1908, 
  p. 
  222; 
  1929, 
  2:242). 
  The 
  present 
  writer 
  has 
  come 
  across 
  

   no 
  specific 
  mention 
  of 
  contraceptive 
  practices; 
  apparently 
  in 
  recent 
  

  

  