Note 179 — Chapter II · TABOOED DAYS AFTER A DEATH AND ON RELATED OCCASIONS

F. Boas, in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1901, xv, 121 sq. With these regulations may be compared the restrictions which, among the Kwakiutl of British Columbia, are imposed on a man who has eaten human flesh as a ceremonial rite and who, therefore, is considered unclean. He must not approach his wife for an entire year, nor is he allowed either to gamble or to work during this time (Boas, “The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians,” Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1895, pp. 537 sq.).