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and (Uuightcrs. It also gives aunts and uncles. The children 

 call their father and father's brothers, all fathers, and their 

 mother and mother's sisters, all mothers ; but their father's 

 sisters are aunts, and their mother's brothers are uncles. 

 The children of their father's brothers they call brothers, 

 the children of their mother's sisters they call sisters ; but 

 the children of their father's sisters they call cousins, and 

 the children of their mother's brothers they call cousins. 



This famil}^ is widely spread in Australia and elsewliere 

 and the kinship system is still more widely spread as it ex- 

 ists among all the tribes of North and South America and 

 elsewhere in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and in some of the 

 islands of the sea. 



The Punaluan system of kinship at first described is 

 known to exist, but the form of communal marriage is not 

 known. The Malayan system of kinship and marriage is 

 known. " 



The simplest and most common form only has been given. 



The development of this into the polj^gamic and mon- 

 ogamic systems of marriage is accomplished in diverse ways 

 among many tribes. The group of husbands and group of 

 wives constituting one family comes to be very large and 

 narrower restrictions are adopted, thus boys of one mother 

 will be married in a group to the daughters of another 

 mother, and various other restrictive regulations will appear, 

 but all involving a common principle, namely, that the 

 husbands and wives have no choice. Selection is made by 

 legal appointment. Legal appointment develops into indi- 

 vidual selection through three processes : 



First, the parties interested consulting their own wishes, 

 elope; and marriage by elopement though illegal at first, 

 is made legal on the day of jubilee. This procedure widely 

 prevails among the North American Indians. 



Second, it ofttimes happens that in the vicissitude of life 

 certain groups of families of sisters increase in number, 

 while the group of brothers to whom they belong decrease 

 in number, and vice versa. Under these circumstances a 

 few men are entitled to many wives, and the law holds this 



