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displeased, has suddenly sent the son away, although 

 he may have been in the enjoyment of his nuptial 

 rights for several years. In one such case the young 

 man, rather than leave his wife, took both her life and 

 his own." No bride-price is paid on a marriage 

 within the tribe. The marriage rite, we are told, " is 

 very simple. Its chief feature consists of anointing 

 with the blood of a reindeer slain for the purpose. 

 The bride and bridegroom, with other members of his 

 family, paint on her face the hereditary signs of her 

 new family, by which she casts off her old family gods 

 and assumes the new ones. When the bridegroom is 

 taken to the family of his father-in-law, his family 

 totem-marks and gods are discarded and he paints on 

 his face the totem of the family to which he will hence- 

 forth belong." l The Afghan bride is taken to her 

 husband's home ; but in a few days she returns and 

 lives with her husband in her parents' house. 2 



The commutation of the bridegroom's permanent 

 residence in his wife's family for a temporary residence 

 there followed by removal with his wife and children 

 to his own house, is found among many peoples. 

 Certain of the aboriginal tribes of China require the 

 husband to reside for a period of seven or ten years 

 with his wife's parents, permitting him at the expiration 

 of that period to return to the home of his fathers 

 and to take his wife. Meanwhile the eldest child 



1 Bogoras, Am. Anthr. N.S. iii. 102 ; Jesup Exped. vii. 359. 

 Residence with the wife's family was perhaps the rule among the 

 pagan Sakai of Perak (Skeat and Blagden, ii. 62, 63). The Manchu 

 rule is to take the bride to the bridegroom's house ; but the contrary 

 arrangement is sometimes stipulated for (J. H. Stewart Lockhart, 

 F.L.i. 491). 



2 Post, Studien, 242, citing Kohler, Zeits. vergl. Rechtsw. v. 361. 



