Note 45 — Observations, and arguments, in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews. (continued 3)

Mooney says that the institution of the menstrual lodge obtained among all Indian tribes. Myths, 469. Beatty in his Two Months Tour Among the Indian Tribes, fixes the period in the lodge at seven days, and says “the person who brings her victuals is very careful not to touch her, and so cautious is she of touching her food with her own hands that she makes use of a sharpened stick.... A woman who is delivered of a child is separated likewise for a time.” For Boudinot’s treatment of the subject: Star of the West, 277.