Many examples among uncivilized peoples bear out this description of the institution of the men’s house.  Amongst the Indians of California and in some Redskin tribes the men’s clubhouse may never be entered by a squaw under penalty of death.  The Shastika Indians have a town lodge for women, and another for men which the women may not enter.[15] Among the Fijis women are not allowed to enter a bure or club house, which is used as a lounge by the chiefs.  In the Solomon Islands women may not enter the men’s tambu house, and on some of the islands are not even permitted to cross the beach in front of it.[29] In the Marquesas Islands the ti where the men congregate and spend most of their time is taboo to women, and protected by the penalty of death from the pollution of a woman’s presence.[30]

Not only is woman barred from the men’s club house, but she is also often prohibited from association and social intercourse with the opposite sex by many other regulations and customs.  Thus no woman may enter the house of a Maori chief,[31] while among the Zulus, even if a man and wife are going to the same place they never walk together.[32] Among the Baganda wives are kept apart from the men’s quarters.[21] The Ojibway Indian Peter Jones says of his people:  “When travelling the men always walk on before.  It would be considered a great presumption for the wife to walk by the side of her husband."[33] In many islands of the South Seas the houses of important men are not accessible to their wives, who live in separate huts.  Among the Bedouins a wife may not sit in any part of the tent except her own corner, while it is disgraceful for a man to sit under the shadow of the women’s roffe (tent covering).[34] Among the Hindus, no female may enter the men’s apartments.  In the Society and Sandwich Islands the females were humiliated by taboo, and in their domestic life the women lived almost entirely by themselves.  The wife could not eat the same food, could not eat in the same place, could not cook by the same fire.  It was said that woman would pollute the food.[35] In Korea a large bell is tolled at about 8 p.m. and 3 a.m. daily, and between these hours only are women supposed to appear in the streets.[36] In the New Hebrides there is a curious segregation of the sexes, with a dread among the men of eating anything female.[37]

Among many tribes this segregation of the women and the separation of the sexes begin at an early age, most often at the approach of puberty, which is earlier in primitive peoples than in our own race.[38] The boys usually go about with the father, while the girls remain with the mother.  This is true in Patagonia, where the boys begin to go with the father at ten, the daughters with the mother at nine.[39] In Korea boys and girls are separated at seven.  From that time the Korean girl is absolutely secluded in the inner court of her father’s home.  Mrs Bishop says:  “Girl children are so successfully