[108] A.L.  Kroeber, “The Religion of the Indians of California,” University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. iv.  No. 6 (September, 1907), p. 324.

[109] Roland B. Dixon, “The Northern Maidu,” Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. xvii.  Part iii. (May 1905) pp. 232 sq., compare pp. 233-238.

[110] Stephen Powers, Tribes of California (Washington, 1877), p. 85 (Contributions to North American Ethnology, vol. iii.).

[111] Stephen Powers, op. cit. p. 235.

[112] Charles Wilkes, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, New Edition (New York, 1851), iv. 456.

[113] Franz Boas, Chinook Texts (Washington, 1894), pp. 246 sq. The account, taken down from the lips of a Chinook Indian, is not perfectly clear; some of the restrictions were prolonged after the girl’s second monthly period.

[114] G.M.  Sproat, Scenes and Studies of Savage Life (London, 1868), pp. 93 sq.

[115] Franz Boas, in Sixth Report on the North-Western Tribes of Canada, pp. 40-42 (separate reprint from the Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Leeds meeting, 1890).  The rule not to lie down is observed also during their seclusion at puberty by Tsimshian girls, who always sit propped up between boxes and mats; their heads are covered with small mats, and they may not look at men nor at fresh salmon and olachen.  See Franz Boas, in Fifth Report on the North-Western Tribes of Canada, p. 41 (separate reprint from the Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Newcastle-upon-Tyne meeting, 1889); G.M.  Dawson, Report on the Queen Charlotte Islands, 1878 (Montreal, 1880), pp. 130 B sq. Some divine kings are not allowed to lie down.  See Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, p. 5.

[116] George M. Dawson, Report on the Queen Charlotte Islands, 1878 (Montreal, 1880), p. 130 B; J.R.  Swanton, Contributions to the Ethnology of the Haida (Leyden and New York, 1905), pp. 48-50 (The Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Memoir of the American Museum of Natural History, New York).  Speaking of the customs observed at Kloo, where the girls had to abstain from salmon for five years, Mr. Swanton says (p. 49):  “When five years had passed, the girl came out, and could do as she pleased.”  This seems to imply that the girl was secluded in the house for five years.  We have seen (above, p. 32) that in New Ireland the girls used sometimes to be secluded for the same period.