Nanabushu Marries Footnotes
(1) Reference is to a menstrual lodge.
(2) Man is forbidden to enter a mentrual lodge; usually an old woman is about, who looks after the wants of the woman
(3) A woman menstruating is to be avoided for the evil power she then is said to have.
(4) These excuses by the mother are only a formality. She really has more to say than the father, and could have given the answer then. It is a point not to appear too anxious, however willing one may be.
(5) This is given as the same little wigwam, but as a matter of fact it would be another into which the woman would go after her illness.
(6) All this is according to custom.
(7) At the back of the lodge, the proper place for a male visitor to sit where there is no male owner of the lodge.
(8) These words are purely formal, and have no meaning. a parent uses them, no matter how capable his daughter is, but he does not permit any one else to say the same thing of her.
(9) Another formal statement which serves to put the responsibility of the man.
(10) As a rule, a man and his wife do not go away at once to live by themselves; they live a while either with his parents or else with hers.
(11) The ceremony is always after the wedding.
(2) Man is forbidden to enter a mentrual lodge; usually an old woman is about, who looks after the wants of the woman
(3) A woman menstruating is to be avoided for the evil power she then is said to have.
(4) These excuses by the mother are only a formality. She really has more to say than the father, and could have given the answer then. It is a point not to appear too anxious, however willing one may be.
(5) This is given as the same little wigwam, but as a matter of fact it would be another into which the woman would go after her illness.
(6) All this is according to custom.
(7) At the back of the lodge, the proper place for a male visitor to sit where there is no male owner of the lodge.
(8) These words are purely formal, and have no meaning. a parent uses them, no matter how capable his daughter is, but he does not permit any one else to say the same thing of her.
(9) Another formal statement which serves to put the responsibility of the man.
(10) As a rule, a man and his wife do not go away at once to live by themselves; they live a while either with his parents or else with hers.
(11) The ceremony is always after the wedding.