The family names are perpetuated and spread through the country by the operation of two remarkable laws : — 1st. "That children of either sex always take the family name of their mother. The Aborigines of Victoria - Página 87por Robert Brough Smyth - 1878 - 939 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1879 - 432 páginas
...remarkable laws : " 1st. That the children of either sex always take the family name of their mother. " That a man cannot marry a woman of his own family name. "But not the least singular circumstance connected with these institutions is their coincidence with... | |
| 1842 - 452 páginas
...Captain Grey ascertained that the children of either sex always take the family name of their mother, and that a man cannot marry a woman of his own family name. On referring to the Archaiologia Americana, vol. it p. 109, these institutions will be found to be... | |
| Edward John Eyre - 1845 - 564 páginas
...remarkable laws : — " 1st. That children of either sex, always take the family name of their mother. " 2nd. That a man cannot marry a woman of his own family name." From this it appears that the natives of that part of the country have in addition to their other ordinary... | |
| 1878 - 572 páginas
...also Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, by Edward John Eyre, 1845, TOl. H, pp. 319-20. f Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery....are divided into two separate classes, namely, the Hatteri and the Karraru. This division seems to have been introduced since time immemorial, and with... | |
| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1879 - 550 páginas
...remarkable laws: " 1st. That the children of either sex always take the family name of their mother. " That a man cannot marry a woman of his own family name. "But not the least singular circumstance connected with these institutions is their coincidence with... | |
| John Ferguson McLennan - 1886 - 434 páginas
...two laws : first, that the children of either sex always take the name of the mother ; and second, that a man cannot marry a woman of his own family name. The members of these families, though scattered over the country, are yet to some intents as much united... | |
| Charles Staniland Wake - 1888 - 318 páginas
...Horse,' the second of the ' Sheep,' and the third of the ' Ox' family name." According to the rule that a man cannot marry a woman of his own family name, a ' Horse' cannot marry a ' Horse,' but must marry a ' Sheep,' or an ' Ox,' and we may suppose that... | |
| John Ferguson McLennan - 1896 - 634 páginas
...remarkable laws : 1st, that children (boys as well as girls) always take the family name of their mother ; 2nd, that a man cannot marry a woman of his own family name. Sir George Grey elsewhere says that " the whole race is divided into tribes,'' more or less numerous... | |
| John Ferguson McLennan - 1896 - 634 páginas
...Sir G. Grey.] Vol. ii. pp. 225 et seq. London, 1841. always take the family name of the mother; (2) that a man cannot marry a woman of his own family name." Every family has " as its crest or sign " (kobong = totem) some animal or vegetable, between which... | |
| Thomas Worsnop - 1897 - 366 páginas
...remarkable laws: — 1st. That children of either sex always take the family name of their mother. 2nd. That a man cannot marry a woman of his own family name." * t These divisions seem to be existent from time immemorial, and to have been enacted with a view... | |
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