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Until the newborn child can walk, the father may not eat any food in its hut and may not enter it during the first ten days after the birth. If he has had sexual intercourse with one of his other wives, he may not touch the baby the next day.

• Source: Merker, Meritz. The Masai: ethnographic monograph of an East African Semite people. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), 1910.
• Culture: Maasai
• Location: Africa