Netsilik Eskimo Birth
"She brings her child into the world while on her knees and alone, without help. If it is winter, she allows the child to glide down into a small hollow in the snow on the platform itself. No skin lining is placed in the hollow for the child, which falls straight into the snow."
–Rasmussen, An Antrholopologist, 1931
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