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respected as the master of the cabin." * In Europe 

 among the Transylvanian Gipsies " a man enters the 

 clan of his wife, but does not really belong to it until she 

 has borne a child. He never during his life shows the 

 slightest concern for the welfare of his children, and 

 the mother has to bear the whole burden of their 

 maintenance. Even if the father is living, the son 

 often never knows him, nor even has seen him." 2 

 Among the Orang Mamaq of Sumatra the members of 

 a suku, or clan, live together, and the feeling of kin- 

 ship is very strong. As marriage within the clan is 

 forbidden, husband and wife rarely dwell under one 

 roof ; when they do, it is because the husband goes to 

 the wife's home. But he does not become a member 

 of the family, which consists merely of the mother and 

 her children. The latter belong solely to their 

 mother's clan ; the father has no rights over them ; 

 and there is no kinship between him and them. In 

 consequence of the spread of foreign influences the 

 true family has begun to develop in a section of these 

 people inhabiting the district of Tiga Loeroeng. The 

 husband and wife usually live together, but the home 

 is with the wife's clan. Though the husband is 

 considered a member of the family he exercises little 

 power over the children. They belong to their 

 mother's suku y and \ht potestas, as usual in such cases, 

 is in the hands of her eldest brother. 3 



A corollary of the principle that the father is not 

 akin to his children is that children of the same father 

 by different mothers are not reckoned as brothers and 



1 Charlevoix, Histoire de la Nouvelle France, v. 424. 



2 Potter, 1 1 6, citing von Wlislocki, Vom wandernde Zigeumr- 

 volke. 3 Bijdragen, xxxix. 43, 44. 



