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In the Marquesas Islands the Hoolah-hoolah ground, where festivals are held, is taboo to women, who are killed if they enter or even touch with their feet the shadow of the trees. Women are also excluded from the sacred festivals of the Ahts. In the Amazon region, the women are not even permitted to see the objects used in important ceremonies.
So, too, the savage Ahts of Vancouver Island sit round their fires singing and chatting; "and the older men, we are told, lying and bragging after the manner of story-tellers, recount their feats in war, or the chase, to a listening group." Mr. Im Thurn has drawn an interesting picture of the habits at night of the Indian tribes of Guiana.
Sproat took among the Ahts, and when his account of Melanesian myths reads like a close copy of Mr. I also cited at length Dr. Tylor's masterly argument to the same effect, an argument offered by him to 'a great historian, apparently. Mr. Max Muller's Method of Controversy Now no member of the reading public, perusing Mr. He could not guess that Dr.
Houses very like these are built by the Ahts or Nootkas, a tribe of Indians inhabiting parts of Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland. A Nootka calls his house an ourt. The good offices of Lewis and Clark, who were always ready to make peace between hostile tribes, were again successful here.
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