In a message dated 5/8/99 12:10:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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AAron wrote:
>
>  It seems that Hearne's Indian acquaintances did not hesitate to kill
>  pregnant cows.  I've also read that when Indians attacked a bear den,
>  they would kill all of the cubs.
>

Here's a stretch folks,,,,any chance that primative man, and I do mean
primative,
ever tried to nurse off of freshly killed lactating female animals?  Is it
possible??

*If* he were starving, and if he saw that nursing was nourishment both from
watching his own offspring and those of animals, might he not feel the need
to suckle off the fresh kill?,,,,What if they believed that milk was a
*magical*
 substance.  Since it couldn't be captured, only flowed from mothers,
and fed the young, clearly it was superior and mysterious food....Might it
not have been
considered a delicacy perhaps? or the ultimate reward for a good hunt??

He wouldn't be smart enough to know it was meant for the baby offspring, just
babies in general.  Milk is milk to a primative man.........maybe????

Native Americans believe eating your enemies heart (and that of a strong
animal
that gave them a run for their money in a hunt)  will give you their bravery.
 Eating
it while still hot and pumping was the ultimate reward, and allowed first to
the
primary killer of the animal.  Wouldn't surprise me a bit if they did this
too.

I don't see it in paleo man tho, I think we'd be more primative.  I've never
read
any Native American info on such a thing, so I doubt they did that.  But
*somebody*,
*somewhere*, got the idea to drink animal milk...........how did they do it???
And why???


Anna L. Abrante
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