the hunter's wife (Chapter 041)

Family: Indian village · Role: wife and mother · First appears: Infant Nursed By Bears

In Chapter 041, the hunter’s wife was married to the hunter, and they went hunting from an Indian village with their child. She gave birth to the infant and died after the hunter forced her to eat bear meat; he then buried her and threw the infant into a hollow tree.

Relationship record

Life events

• The hunter's wife gave birth to the infant and died after the hunter forced her to eat bear meat.(Infant Nursed By Bears)
  • With: the infant (Chapter 041)
  • “whom he forced to eat of the meat until she died, with her little infant to which she had given birth the same hour.”

Infant Nursed By Bears

• married with the hunter (Chapter 041) “A man and his wife and child went off hunting from an Indian village and encamped a long way from home.”
• child: the infant (Chapter 041) “Then the hunter buried his wife and threw the infant into the hollow tree.”

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Extracted from the original text of Myths of the Iroquois. Made with Rho MD.