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Wasabe bit'ajl, married a Ponka Wajaje womau. Her father, a Wajaje, 

 married a Ponka Maka n womau. 



Two Crows, being a Haiiga, cannot marry a Haiiga woman, nor can 

 he marry a j^e-sfode woman, as they are all his kindred through his 

 mother. He cannot marry women belonging to the Wasabe- bit'aji and 

 je-da-it'ajl subgeutes (" u^ig^asne") of the (fJatada gens, because his 

 real grandmothers belonged to those subgeutes. But he can marry 

 women belonging to the other (fatada subgentes, the Wajiuga-^ataji 

 and ge-'i n , as they are not his kindred. In like manner Joseph La 

 Fleche cannot marry a Ponka Wasabe-hit'aji woman, a Ponka Wajaje 

 woman, or a Ponka Maka n woman. But he can marry an Omaha Wasa- 

 be-hit'aji woman, as she belongs to another tribe. 



Gai" baji cannot marry women belonging to the following gentes: 

 Hanga (his father's gens), Weji n cte (his mother's gens), je-sinde (his 

 paternal grandmother's gens), Wasabe-hit'aji, and ^e-da-it'aji. 



Gai u -baji's son cannot marry any women belonging to the following 

 gentes : Iuke-sabp, Haiiga, Weji n cte, j^e-sinde, or that of the mother of 

 his mother. Nor could he marry a Wasabe-hit'aji or j^e-da-it'aji wo- 

 man, if his parents or grandparents were living, and knew the degree 

 of kinship. But if they were dead, and he was ignorant of the fact 

 that the women and he were related, he might marry one or more of 

 them. The same rule holds good for the marriage of Qi^a-gahige's sou, 

 but with the substitution of j^a-dafor liike-sab8. 



Two Grows cauuot marry any Iiike-sabe woman belonging to the 

 subgens of his son's wife ; but he can marry oue belonging to either 

 of the remaining subgentes. So, too, he cannot marry 7 a j^a-da wo- 

 man belonging to the subgens of Qi^a-gahige, his son-in-law, but he 

 can marry any other j/i-da woman. As his brother Caa n , had mar- 

 ried a jj a "da woman of Smde-xa n xa u 's subgens, Two Crows has a right to 

 marry any xa-da woman of her subgens who was her sister, father's 

 sister, or brother's daughter. He has a similar privilege in the }ja n ze 

 gens, owing to the marriage of another brother, Mi n xa-ta n . 



An Omaha Hanga man can marry a Kansas Haiiga woman, because 

 she belongs to another tribe. A Ponka Wasabe-hit'aji man can marry 

 an Omaha \Vasabe-hit'aji woman, because she belongs to a different 

 tribe. 



WHOM i MAN Oil WOMAN CANNOT MAI.RT. 



A man cannot marry any of the women of the gens of his father, as 

 they are his grandmothers, aunts, sisters, nieces, daughters, or grand- 

 children. He cauuot marry any woman of the subgens of his father's 

 mother, tor the same leason; but he can marry any womau belonging 

 to the other subgentes of his paternal grandmother's gens, as they are 

 not his kindred. The women of the subgens of his paternal grand- 

 mother's mother are also forbidden to him ; but those of the remaining 

 subgeutes of that gens can become his wives, provided they are such 



