CURIOSITIES

OF

SAVAGE LIFE.

10

BY

JAMES GREENWOOD,

AUTHOR OF "WILD SPORTS OF THE WORLD."

ITH WOODCUTS AND DESIGNS BY HARDEN S. MELVILLE; ENGRAVED BY
H. NEWSOM WOODS.

AND COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS FROM WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS BY
F. W. KEYL AND R. HUTTULA.

LONDON:

S. O. BEETON, 248, STRAND, W.C.

1863.

INTRODUCTORY.

Modern incredulity as to the present exsist-
ence of the bona fide savage, 1; the savage
onsidered mentally and morally-his do-
nestic life-his bed, his toilet, his board-
nan flesh-going to market for a joint of it
-a picture with no bright side, 3; the
author's proposition as to the division of his
book-from the cradle to the kite and top-
to the miseries and joys of courtship-to the
marriage altar-to the larder-to the sooth-
ing pipe-to the sick couch and devil-doctor
--to the battle-field-to the civil and criminal
law court-to the abode of the rainmaker and
the witch-finder-to the temple of heathen
worship-to the grave, 8.

PART I.

SAVAGE BIRTH AND BOYHOOD.

CHAP. I.-The care of "babes and suck-
lings" a fair morality test, 9; babes as a rule
tenderly cared for by their savage parents-
Madagascar an exception-the god Sikiddy
and how he controls the fate of Malagasey
infants, 10; Figian contempt for female in-
fants-Figian mothers' mode of getting rid
of a useless baby girl-a baby strangled to
make room for an orphan-the Figian child
taught to fight its mother, 11; the Samoan
baby-its first meal of chewed cocoa-nut-a
head flattening machine-how applied-its
effects-the Flat-head nation, 14; an ugly
pecimen of Flat-head manners and customs

Clark, how are you?" 15; the North-
American Indian mother-solicitude for in-
ints among the Sioux-a Sioux cradle song,
16; a Sioux mother's mourning-difficulty
of a North-American infant finding its way
to Paradise-devices to assist it-the "doll
of sorrow"-how the Mosquito Indians lodge
heir newly born, 18; the Apingi mode of
Creating wives-etiquette of tooth cutting
among the Wazaramo-the spotted Cree
baby-

-a murderess against her will, 20;
North-American christenings-quaint names
given to children-the ceremony of Midewi-
gamig-the wigwam altar-the procession

of Mides-the medicine-bags and their mira-
culous power-the altar of green boughs-
spitting out the shells-christening presents,
23; christening in New Zealand-christened
three times sneezing assent to a name-
unceremonious treatment of female babies
in New Zealand-odd New Zealand names,
"Sheets," "Teapot," "Measles," etc., 26.

CHAP. II. Savage treatment of babies
compared with civilized-the secret of the
universal love for babies-better fee the
butcher than the doctor-awaiting the
return home of savage papa, 28; lack
of affection for old folks in Southern
Africa-turned out to die, 29; how the Fi-
gian treats his father-"better die at once
than live to be a troublesome old man"-
the treatment of grey hairs in North America,
31; the Indian's indifference to death, 35;
accounts of Indian barbarity not overcolored
-towns of refuge among the Choctaws
modes of torture-the victim prepared for
the torture of fire-baited like a bear and
lashed with fiery thongs-the clay crown to
preserve the scalp-locks from burning-story
of a Katahba brave, 36; his miraculous es-
cape from the fire torture-his terrible revenge
on his enemies-"Old Scranney" a Cree war-
rior-his exploit with the red-hot gun-barrel,
39; fiendish cruelty of Indian women-the
Fox Indian wrapped in a flowing cloak-the
revenge of Mahtotopa a Mandan chief-how
he scalped the Ricaree warrior, 42; the law
of scalping the Franks and Anglo-Saxons
formerly scalpers-the narrative of Mahto-
topa's suicide-its cause-the North American
Indian's "courage test"-horrid operation of
skewers and pullies-spinning the victim—
the finishing touch-concerning "medicine,"
48; the dream of life-the couch in the tree
-the dreamer acquires his "totem," 49;
the "Shining Cloud's" experiences as a
dreamer"Shining Cloud's" grandfather
instructs him as to his behaviour-"Shining
Cloud" finding that he can't stand the hard-
ships imposed on him goes home-tries again
in the spring is visited by a spirit-a jour-
ney to the "wigwam in the skies"-"Shining
Cloud" receives his "medicine"-his descent

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