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is brought up iu the family, and what appears strange, old grandmoth- 

 ers, who have passed the age of having children, have their milk return 

 to them, and take the place of the mother. Indians love their children 

 with an extreme passion, and although they do not show their affection 

 by lively caresses, as do the Europeans, their tenderness is, however, not 

 less real. They suckle their children as long as they are able, and do 

 not wean them but from necessity. I have seen children three or four 

 years old taking milk with their younger brothers" (p. 593). 



In South America the same custom seems to obtain that we have 

 seen in North America, namely, in the tropics the carrying of children 

 in the shawl or sash, and bedding it in the hammock; while in the colder 

 regions the cradle-frame appears. Frames corresponding to some in 

 North America are found iu Peru. Simon de Schryver, in his Eoyaume 

 d'Araucanie-Patagonie (1887), figures at page 21 an Araucanian woman 

 carrying a child in a frame (Fig. 39), which seems to be nothing more 



Fig. 39. 

 Araucanian Woman carrying Child. 



(From Simon de Schryver's "Royaume d'Araueanie-Patagonie.") 



than a short ladder, with crossbars. On this frame the child is lashed, 

 the head being perfectly free, except that the lower part of the occiput 

 rests against the top cross-bar, as in the case of the Polynesian pillow. 

 In addition to her living freight the woman carries in front a bag of 

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