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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
Other words still in use point to a distinct state of society to the 
present. 
Picture writing. Egyptian, Mexican, North American Indian. 
The Guipos and Wampum belt. Modern analogues of them. 
The curious practice of the Couvade. Its wide distribution. Belies 
of it even in England. Customs at birth. Consecration of the 
newly-born child. Bites of manhood, coming of age, assumption 
of the " manly toga." Savage rites of the same class. 
Curious customs of courtship. Betrothal and marriage. Cases 
of survival in these times. The "father" at the wedding. The 
"best man." The "bridecake." "Flinging the shoe." "The 
honeymoon." Marriage by capture. Marriage by purchase. 
Marriage by fascination. Origin of marriage. Customs of differ- 
ent countries and times. 
Eamily relationships. Laws of descent and inheritance. Adop- 
tion. Property in wives, children, and slaves. 
Naming of children. Ceremonies connected therewith. Tribal 
names. Eamily names. Totems and totemism. 
Survivals of barbarism in fashions of dress and personal orna- 
mentation. Tatooing, painting, &c. Personal distortion of the 
feet, waist, head, lips, and ears. 
Survivals in cookery, medicine, the domestic arts. Eeligious 
rites and customs, as sacrifice, fasting, ablution, orientation in 
religious buildings and worship. Eelics of sun worship. Nar- 
cotism as a religious rite. Origin of smoking. 
Mythology, its origin and laws of development. Eairy tales 
and nursery stories, many of them broken-down religious myths, 
mostly connected with the sun. 
Witchcraft and demonology. General doctrine of animism. 
Confusion of personality and identity. Hero worship and priest- 
craft. 
Some isolated and miscellaneous customs. 
Bibliography of the subject. Tylor's "Early History of Man- 
kind." Tylor's " History of Primitive Culture." McLennan's 
" Primitive Marriage." Maine's " Ancient Law." Wilson's 
" Prehistoric Man." Lubbock's "Origin of Civilization." Lub- 
bock's "Prehistoric Times." Jeaffreson's "Brides and Bridals." 
Wood's "Natural History of Man." "Anthropological Society's 
Transactions." 
