[79] Or “the low-born,” her words might also be translated.
[80] Hesiod, Works and Days, verse 825 (as translated by Miss E. J. Harrison).
[81] The different methods of house-building will be dealt with under Arts and Crafts.
[82] Among a few groups living in the eastern section of the territory inhabited by the Taiyal, there is a special “bride-house,” i.e. a hut erected on piles, some twenty feet above ground. In this “bride-house” every newly married couple of the tribal group must spend the first five days and nights after marriage. The house is exorcised by the priestesses before the entrance of the bridal pair.
[83] The newly married couple among the Paiwan—the tribe adjoining the Piyuma—live for a short time only with the parents of the bride, before building a home of their own. According to tradition, this tribe was once altogether matrilocal, as the Piyuma still are. Among certain groups of the Ami also, the newly married couple live for a time with the parents of the bride.
[84] I have never heard that a woman was supposed to be responsible for illness. Just what would happen in such a case—if a living woman were suspected—I do not know.
[85] The bridge referred to on p. [147].
[86] See illustration.
[87] See illustration.