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grew up and married, the latter gave him his share, both in 

 garden land and in coconut palms. Again, when the youngest 

 boy, Wond'i, becomes grown up he will receive his share from 

 both his elder brothers. 



The native ornaments, however, all went to Bania and 

 Tsdra. Neither Meria, Ondga's widow, nor his sisters, nor 

 his children, received any share in his native ornaments. 



One other actual pedigree will serve to illustrate further 

 the general principles of inheritance. . 



Pedigree. 



Nudna^=--0 



Keneni 



lidvaka 



Dini 



Arahu 



O 



l7idmu 



When y udna died, not his sons, Kdvaka and Dini, but 

 his younger brother, Keneni, inherited his wealth. Moreover, 

 as Kdvaka and Dini were grown up when Xudna died, and 

 had by that time received their shares in coconut palms, all 

 the remaining coconut trees of Xudn3i went to Keneni. After 

 KenenVs death, however, part of the coconuts, and perhaps 

 Some of his wealth or jewellery would return to Kdvaka and 

 Dini. 



This state of things would lead apparently to a conges- 

 tion of riches, in the form of native ornaments in the hands 

 «f the last survivor of a large family of brothers. It must be 

 remembered, however, that native ornaments were constantly 

 manufactured, that they were exchanged or distributed in 

 connection with feasts, ceremonies, marriage transactions, etc., 

 and that native wealth often changed hands, and so never 

 €Ould accumulate to any large extent. Thus the inheritance 

 of native ornaments by the deceased man's brothers — with a 

 very small share sometimes falling to his paternal first cousins 

 — did not entail any serious strain in the economic equilibrium 

 in the village. 



There was no special legal mechanism to enforce all the 

 transactions connected with inheritance. Thus the brothers 

 liad to agree upon the division of the wealth ; the children 



