12 PRIMITIVE PATERNITY 



sukus. If the husband's be the stronger he builds 

 the home in the kampong, or settlement, of his suku 

 and takes his bride thither. The children then belong 

 to the suku in which they are born and brought up, 

 and the mother's brothers have no rights over them. 

 Yet in case of separation the mother takes the children 

 back with her and they lose all rights in their father's 

 suku. l 



In Formosa, according to old Dutch accounts, the 

 " laws of wedlock were most curious, a married man 

 not residing permanently with his wife until he was fifty 

 years old, and it was a great disgrace should a woman 

 give birth to a child before her thirty-seventh year." 

 The more recent and exact information of a Japanese 

 official who has made a study of the natives and is 

 said to be the foremost authority upon them may 

 perhaps explain these peculiarities. According to 

 this gentleman the Tsalisen about Mount Kurayao 

 in the high central range of the island effect their 

 marriages thus. " The consent of the parents on, 

 both sides must be obtained, and the preliminary 

 arrangements must be placed in the care of a middle- 

 man. After matters have been definitely arranged a 

 month is allowed to intervene, and on an appointed 

 day the suitor visits the house of his intended and 

 a simple ceremony sanctions the right of the couple 

 to come together. The woman remains at the home 

 of her mother until a child is born, when she removes 

 to the house of her husband, and the marriage is then 



1 Wilken, Verwantschap, 678 ; Bijdragen, xxxix. 43. The Sakais 

 of the banks of the Mandau and Rokan Kiri in Sumatra have an 

 organisation and customs similar to those of Tiga Loeroeng (Zeits. 

 vergl. Rechtsw. xxi. 322). 



