V RISE OF FATHERRIGHT 89 



right of membership in her clan for their future 

 children. He continues to live in his father-in- 

 law's family for three months, and then makes a 

 further payment of a hundred blankets for the right to 

 take his wife home. When the father-in-law has 

 repaid the whole of the bride-price with interest he 

 has redeemed his daughter, and the marriage is 

 annulled. She may afterwards, however, remain with 

 her husband of her own free will, or he may make a 

 new payment in order to continue his claim upon her. 1 

 The Kwakiutl traditions are quite familiar with the 

 residente of the son-in-law in the house of his wife's 

 father, and reflect the customs of a period when the choice 

 of a husband rested largely with the bride, and when 

 marriages were made, as among the Haida and various 

 other American tribes, by sleeping together at night 

 followed by discovery on the part of the bride's family 

 in the morning and a formal ackowledgment of the 

 relationship. 2 The elaborate ceremonial incident to a 

 present-day marriage, and the purchase and re-purchase 

 of the bride and her father's crest and privileges are 

 probably comparatively recent. They have not 

 succeeded in obliterating all trace of an older and 

 simpler practice, which is still perfectly well understood 

 as preserved in the tribal tales. 



Like the two last-mentioned tribes the Ntlakdpamux, 

 whose habitat is on the Fraser River and its tribu- 

 tary the Thompson River (whence they are often 

 called the Thompson Indians) reckon kinship on both 

 sides. There are three modes of entering into married 



1 B. A. Rep. 1889, 838, 834; Boas, Rep. Nat. Mus. 1895, 358, 

 334- / Dawson, Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada, v. 



2 Boas and H\mt,Jesup Exped. x. 12, 196, 239. 



