...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...

...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...

...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...

...also Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, by Edward John Eyre, 1845, vOl. II., pp. 319-20. f Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery....are divided into two separate classes, namely, the Matteri and the Karraru. This division seems to have been introduced since time immemorial, and with...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...