The whole matter is looked upon as a matter of course, and not as a thing to be ashamed of or to hide, and being thus openly treated of and no secrecy made about it, you find in this tribe that the women are very virtuous, because the subject of married life has no glamour for them.

When a woman is pregnant she is again danced; this time all the dancers are naked, and she is taught how to behave and what to do when the time of her delivery arrives." Among the Yuman Indians of California, as described by Horatio Rust ("A Puberty Ceremony of the Mission Indians," _American Anthropologist_, Jan.

to March, 1906, p.

28) the girls are at puberty prepared for marriage by a ceremony.

They are wrapped in blankets and placed in a warm pit, where they lie looking very happy as they peer out through their covers.