HORN EXPEDITION — ANTTIROPOLOOY. 
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Forbidden Degrees of Kindred. 
A iiiaii may marry as many of his wife’s sisters (tribal) as he can secure. 
1 le may not marry, or even speak to, his mother-in-law; nor can he marry 
the sister of his wife’s father or mother. For example, if I am a Panunga man 
my wife must he a Purula woman. The mother of a Purula woman is a Pultarra 
and the father is a Kumarra—that i.s, the father and mother of my wife, and 
consequently their sisters, belong to classes with which I cannot intermarry. 
A man may speak to his mother at all time.s, but he may not speak to Ins 
sister if she be younger than himself—of cour.se this prohibition only applies to 
grown up men and women. 
A father [okniea) may not speak to his daughter {kzviai okatchi, girl child) 
after she becomes a woman. 8he may visit his camp at night and talk to her 
mother upart, but father and daughter must not look at each other. 
When the sisters are older than the brothers they are known as kungari, and 
have the privilege of speaking to their brothers at all times; but a younger sister, 
oknaitiha, may not speak to or look at her brother after both are grown up. 
Birth. 
{Aniba-kzverka). 
When a child is about to be born, the woman leaves her own camp and goes to 
the eilukzven'a (camp of the .single women), where she reniains for three or four 
weeks after childbirth. The father is not permitted to see the child until the 
mother returns to his camp. 
Abortion is freijuently produced by tying a belt tightly round the waist. 
Infanticide. 
This is a common practice when the children arrive at short intervals, but 
healthy male children are spared if it be possible to rear them. A mother with 
a child of eighteen mouths .seldom undertakes to rear a giit infant; she consulers 
that she cannot attend to two babies at once, and calmly sacrifices the last arrival 
by choking it with sand. Children are suckled up to the age of three years. I 
have only known of one case of twins—half-castes*—both of which were dcstroycil. 
* Tins is the case mentioned in the precedinyr p.aper. — (E.C.S.) 
