GROUP MARRIAGE AND RELATIONSHIP. 695 



being the feminine termination. Ipai's children are of the 

 Kujjathin class after their mother, but they are not of their 

 mother's sub-class ; they take the name of the other sub-class 

 in her division — that is to say, they are not Kubai like their 

 mother, but Muri. 



An Ipai man marries a Kubai girl — their children are 

 Muri. A Kubai man marries an Ipai girl — their children are 

 Kumbu. A Kumbu man marries a Muri girl — their children 

 are Kubai. A Muri man marries a Kumbu girl — their 

 children are Ipai. Or, to use all the names : — 



Ipai marries Kubitha — their children are Muri and 



Matha. 

 Kumbu marries Matha — their children are Kubai and 



Kubitha. 

 Muri marries Butha — their children are Ipai and 



I path a. 

 Kubai marries Ipatha — their children are Kumbu and 

 Butha. 

 At the risk of incurring ridicule, I will once more use our 

 homely illustration in order to make this quite clear. Say that 

 the Smiths (= Dilbe) divide into Smythes and Smithsons, 

 answering to Ipai and Kumbu, and the Browns (= Kupathin) 

 into Brownings and Bransons, answering to Muri and Kubai. 

 Then the marriages and descents may be shown by the fol- 

 lowing diagram : — 



Smith Broavn 



Smythe (M.) Smithson (M.) Browning (M.) Branson (M.) 



Branson (F.) Browning (F.) Smlthsou (F.) Smythe (F.) 



Brownings Bransons Smythes Smithsons 



From this it is evident that the law of both man-iage and 

 descent remains unaltered as far as the two primary divisions 

 are concerned, excepting that the choice of marriage is 

 restricted. All the children of the Smiths are still Browns 

 after their mothers ; all the children of the Browns are still 

 Smiths. But Smythe's children are not Bransons after their 

 mother ; they are Brownings ; Smithson's children are not 

 Brownings after their mother ; they are Bransons ; and so 

 also with the other division. 



The effect of this curious regulation, whatever its inteittion 

 may have been, is to put further marital restriction upon those 



