Excerpt from Characteristic Labor Scenes Among the Yellow, Black and Red Races Some peculiar customs are observed with regard to the after-birth the umbilical cord is severed from the pla centa, wrapped in several thicknesses of White paper, then in a paper containing the father's and mother's names in full. Thus prepared it is laid aside with the family archives. If the child dies, it is buried with him; if he lives to adult age, he constantly carries it about with him, and at last it is buried with him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.