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Again, it must be emphasized that even within the nar- 

 rower limits of their application — i.e., as far as they are 

 trac-eable genealogically — the terms of kinship do not imply 

 that the native's attitude of mind and his social relation to all 

 the people designed by the same term is exactly identical. 

 Both in the ideas and feelings of the natives, and in their 

 customary regulations the ''own" brothers or parents occupy 

 quite a different position to the cousins or uncles, although the 

 former are designed by the same words as the latter. Thus, 

 for instance, in the customs referring to mourning the "own" 

 brothers would be the more important of the chief mourners, 

 and they have also the whole benefit of the native rules of 

 inheritance (comp. chap, iv., sec. 6, and chap, v., sec. 4). The 

 expression used in Motu to design the actual relationship by 

 blood, in opposition to the purely titular terms of address, 

 and also to discriminate the ''own" brothers and sisters from 

 the collateral ones, is: — Boga (belly) tdmona (one), meaning 

 "born of the same woman." I was told by my own Mailu 

 informants that exactly the same expression is used in Mailu : 

 Tsinai (belly) omubiki (one). 



The general expression for kindred, corresponding to the 

 Matuan word Vdravdra, is in Mailu: Emer/i (men), goina 

 (great grandfather), which might perhaps be translated: 

 "people belonging to the ancestor." The relatives by marriage 

 are called Munirtiiini (marriage) aiira (side) emegi (men). 



The real, or own, father is designed by the expression 

 Ahdi (father) guhina (chief or master), which may be trans- 

 lated "the chief or main father." This expression would be 

 used to answer or put a question : "Who is this man ? Is he 

 your real jatherV It would never be used as a term of address. 

 The father's elder brother is spoken of and addressed as 

 Uiniahd' i ; the younger one as Bciaahd'i. Those terms would 

 be used only when stress is laid on the distinction, both in 

 speaking of the father and uncles and in addressing them. If 

 the father and one of the uncles were present the father 

 would be addressed as Uniabd'i or Rau'abd'i, according to 

 whether he was the elder or younger of the two. 



A concrete example, illustrated by the following gene- 

 alogy, will make it clearer : — 



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