Great jealousy is met with among the Atkha Aleuts, according to Father Yakof; among the Kutchin Indians, according to Richardson and Hardisty; among the Haidahs, according to Dixon; among the Tacullis, according to Harmon; among the Crees, according to Richardson.[635] The Indians on the Eastern side of the Rocky Mountains visited by Harmon, in their fits of jealousy, “often cut off all the hair from the heads of their wives, and, not unfrequently, cut off their noses also; and should they not in the moment of passion have a knife at hand, they will snap it off at one bite, with their teeth.... The man is satisfied in thus revenging a supposed injury; and having destroyed the beauty of his wife, he concludes that he has secured her against all future solicitations to offend.”[636] In California, if a married native woman is seen even walking in the forest with another man than her husband, she is chastised by him, whilst a repetition of the offence is generally punished with speedy death.[637] Among the Creeks, “it was formerly reckoned adultery, if a man took a pitcher of water off a married woman’s head, and drank of it.”[638] The Moquis allow their wives to work only indoors, afraid of having rivals.[639] The Arawaks,[640] as also the Indians of Peru,[641] are stated to commit horrible crimes of jealousy. The Botocudos, who are known to change wives very frequently, are, nevertheless, much addicted to that passion.[642] And, regarding the Coroados of Brazil, v. Spix and v. Martius say that revenge and jealousy are the only passions that can rouse their stunted soul from its moody indifference.[643]
In the Sandwich Islands, according to Lisiansky, jealousy was extremely prevalent,[644] and, in Nukahiva, the men punish their wives with severity upon the least suspicion of infidelity.[645] The Areois of Tahiti, too, although given to every kind of licentiousness, are described by Ellis as utterly jealous.[646] The same is said of the New Caledonians and New Zealanders;[647] whilst, in the Pelew Islands, it is forbidden even to speak about another man’s wife or mention her name.[648] In short, the South Sea Islanders are, as Mr. Macdonald remarks, generally jealous of the chastity of their wives.[649]