4:24: INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTIONS. 



those of his children who have slave-mothers though not 

 over the others. 



But apart from qualifications of the marital relation and 

 of domestic rule hence arising, we meet here and there with 

 examples of dominant female influence, and even supremacy, 

 having its effects upon industrial activities. Instances have 

 already been given (326, 730) showing that in various 

 places trade is in the hands of women, and that in some cases 

 men yield to their authoritative dictation. Here is a more 

 specific instance from New Britain. 



The women of Hayter Island sat &quot; calmly in the canoes, giving 

 orders to the sterner sex what to sell and what to take in exchange. 

 All barter goods that the men exchanged were handed to the women, 

 who examined them very carefully, and placed them under where they 

 were sitting.&quot; 



Something like domestic equality accompanying industrial 

 equality occurs in Borneo. According to St. John, &quot; mar 

 riage among the Dyaks is a business of partnership.&quot; Boyle 

 says of Dyak wives that their share of work is not unreason 

 able, and their influence in the family is considerable. And 

 while St. John tells us that among some Sea-Dyak tribes, the 

 husband follows the wife and lives with, and works for, her 

 parents, we are told by Brooke that in Mukah and other 

 places in the vicinity, inhabited by Malanaus, the wives close 

 their doors, and will not receive their husbands, unless they 

 procure fish. Here, then, the regulation of industry under 

 its domestic form is in the hands of women rather than of 

 men. In the Indian hills there are people the Koccli 

 among whom, along with descent in the female line, 

 there goes complete inversion of the ordinary marital re 

 lations. 



&quot;When a man marries he lives with his wife s mother, obeying her 

 and his wife. Marriages are usually arranged by mothers in nonage, 

 but [only after] consulting the destined bride. Grown up women may 

 select a husband for themselves, and another, if the first die.&quot; 



Thus, whether or not a sequence of descent in the female 

 line, the authority of women is in some cases greater than 



