M92 Division of agricultural work between men and women in the Indian Archipelago. 398 A. C. Kruijt, “Een en ander aangaande het geestelijk en maatschappelijk leven van den Poso-Alfoer,” _Mededeelingen van wege het Nederlandsche Zendelinggenootschap_, xxxix. (1895) pp. 132, 134; J. Boot, “Korte schets der noordkust van Ceram,” _Tijdschrift van het Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap_, Tweede Serie, x. (1893) p. 672; E. H. Gomes, _Seventeen Years among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo_ (London, 1911), p. 46; E. Modigliani, _Un Viaggio a Nías_ (Milan, 1890), pp. 590 _sq._; K. Vetter, _Komm herüber und hilf uns!_ Heft 2 (Barmen, 1898), pp. 6 _sq._; Ch. Keysser, “Aus dem Leben der Kaileute,” in R. Neuhauss, _Deutsch Neu-Guinea_, iii. (Berlin, 1911) pp. 14, 85. 399 J. Gumilla, _Histoire Naturelle, Civile et Géographique de l’Orénoque_ (Avignon, 1758), ii. 166 _sqq._, 183 _sqq._ Compare _The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings_, i. 139 _sqq._ M93 Among savages who have not learned to till the ground the task of collecting the vegetable food in the form of wild seeds and roots generally devolves on women. Examples furnished by the Californian Indians. 400 S. Powers, _Tribes of California_ (Washington, 1877), p. 23. 401 Father Geronimo Boscana, “Chinigchinich,” in [A. Robinson’s] _Life in California_ (New York, 1846), p. 287. Elsewhere the same well-informed writer observes of these Indians that “they neither cultivated the ground, nor planted any kind of grain; but lived upon the wild seeds of the field, the fruits of the forest, and upon the abundance of game” (_op. cit._ p. 285). 402 Father Geronimo Boscana, _op. cit._ pp. 302-305. As to the _puplem_, see _id._ p. 264. The writer says that criers informed the people “when to cultivate their fields” (p. 302). But taken along with his express statement that they “neither cultivated the ground, nor planted any kind of grain” (p. 285, see above, p. 125 note 2), this expression “to cultivate their fields” must be understood loosely to denote merely the gathering of the wild seeds and fruits. 403 See above, pp. 81 _sq._ M94 Among the aborigines of Australia the women provided the vegetable food, while the men hunted. 404 H. E. A. Meyer, “Manners and Customs of the Encounter Bay Tribe,” in _Native Tribes of South Australia_ (Adelaide, 1879), pp. 191 _sq._ 405 (Sir) George Grey, _Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia_ (London, 1841), ii. 292 _sq._ The women also collect the nuts from the palms in the month of March (_id._ ii. 296). 406 (Sir) George Grey, _op. cit._ ii. 12. The yam referred to is a species of _Diascorea_, like the sweet potato. 407 R. Brough Smyth, _The Aborigines of Victoria_ (Melbourne, 1878), i. 209.