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threat of shooting her with an arrow (C. Gallardo, 213-214), (3) The 

 women of fallen foes are taken for wives (Cojazzi, 24; C, Gallardo, 

 214). 



It is a common practice among both the Onas and the Yahgans for 

 a man to marry two sisters (Th. Bridges, li, 210; Hahn, a, 805; 

 Cojazzi, 24; Furlong, d, 221; C. Gallardo, 214). If we may judge 

 from the fact that a Yahgan at Orange Bay was married to two Ala- 

 calufan sisters (Hyades, h, 1344; g-, 411-412), the same custom may 

 prevail among the Alacaluf . 



An Ona or Yahgan sometimes marries a woman and her daughter 

 by a former husband (Cojazzi, 24; Th. Bridges, a, Fr. tr,, 182). The 

 one older and one younger woman to whom Byron's Chono ( ?) cacique 

 was married (Byron, a, 136) were in all probability mother and 

 daughter by a former husband, which would explain Byron's almost 

 certainly incorrect inference that the younger wife was the cacique's 

 daughter. Alex. Campbell's charge (61; in Prevost, xv, 388) that 

 the Chonos practiced incestuous marriage was an equally unwar- 

 ranted inference from the same observed fact. 



Levirate 



The Ona or Yahgan often marries his brother's widow (Hahn, 

 a, 805; C. Gallardo, 214). The Ona at least may marry a relative's 

 widow (C. Gallardo, 214) or his deceased wife's sister (Barclay, a, 76). 



Incest 



Marriage between blood relations is held in horror among both the 

 Onas and Yahgans (Th. Bridges, a, Fr. tr., 182; h, 205; e, 332; I, 234; 

 Hahn, a, 805; Martial, 200; Beauvoir, h, 207; Cojazzi, 24; Barclay, 

 a, 76; Furlong, d, 221; C. Gallardo, 215). Dr. Chastrey's charge to 

 the contrary (255), unless derived from Byron and Alex. Campbell 

 (11. c), is probably based on the same source as a great part of his 

 article — that is, on imagination. 



The restriction obtains among the Yahgans to the second degree 

 (Th. Bridges, ^, 234), while among the Onas, if even in case of quasi 

 necessity "cugini di terzo grado" marry, they are talked about 

 (Cojazzi, 24). 



Endogamy and Exogamy 



Among the Yahgans the man more frequently took a wife from a 

 near rather than from a distant clan, as the women did not like to 

 go far away from their own relatives (Th. Bridges, Ti, 210). Hence 

 the Yahgans may be classed as loosely endogamous (Hyades, p, 334). 



Among the Onas the young men prefer to take wives from distant 

 clans, but the parents of both the man and woman prefer unions 

 between members of adjacent groups; the Onas are therefore "indis- 

 tinctly endogamous or exogamous" (C. Gallardo, 212, 215-216). 



