Note 617 — VIII PRIMITIVE AGRICULTURAL RACES

Heriot, Travels, p. 343. Dumarest, speaking of the Cochiti, says that ‘sometimes, in the midst of winter, the child’s father will take him out and, after breaking the ice, ... will immerse him in the river. Formerly when, in winter, children came from bathing in the river, they were not allowed to approach the fire until their hair was thawed out’ (Mem. Am. Anth. Ass., vol. vi, No. 3, p. 144). Koch-Grünberg states the mortality is heavy among the children of the Amazon tribes and that they are dipped in cold water (Zwei Jahre, vol. ii, pp. 59 and 150).