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of her parents. It is only when that period expires 

 that the husband is bound to support her beyond the 

 monthly present just mentioned and a gift of meat at 

 the two great Mohammedan feasts. She is then 

 committed to the sole charge of her husband ; and if 

 her father and mother be living this is done with 

 much formality. All the expenses of the first child- 

 bed fall upon the wife's parents, any contribution 

 made by the husband being regarded as a voluntary 

 gift. 1 



Among the Alfurs of Buru it is forbidden to marry 

 in the same commune, as perhaps it was originally 

 among the Achehnese. The rule is that the husband 

 pays a bride-price and takes his wife away. But he is 

 called by the name of the commune into which he has 

 married " dependent " of such and such a commune. 

 His wife's family too never addresses him by name, 

 but always by the title of "dependent." After the 

 birth of a child he is called father of that child. The 

 bridegroom who cannot pay nevertheless marries ; 

 but he is compelled to reside with the woman and her 

 kin, to whom the children in such a case belong. 2 

 On the island of Timor the Belunese constitute all 

 marriages by payment. The word for marriage is 

 haafoli, which means to buy something. The pur- 

 chase is made either on the part of the husband or on 

 the part of the wife. If the price be paid on the wife's 

 part, then the husband comes to live with her and the 

 children are hers, not his ; if on the husband's part the 



1 Hurgronje, i. 295, sqq. 



2 Wilken, op. cit. 707; Riedel, 22, 5. Compare the title 

 dependent with that in use among the Creeks of North America 

 (Kohler, 59 note). 



