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' KINSHIP ORGANIZATION IN SOUTH-WEST 79
mother’s line. According to a very intelligent native, the rule
is that a man is always called by the term of his relationship
traced through the speaker's father, in preference to that traced
through the mother’s side, even where kinship through the
latter is closer. But even this rule, like most others, is subject
to suspension in certain circumstances. Tuming to the
genealogies of the clans of Tivulernp and Ndawu, we ï¬Ånd that
Aisir of Tivulemp may call Fintirnbus of Ndawu either tatm‘ or
hula, the ï¬Årst in virtue of the fact that Viloonnbatambur,
Fintimbus' mother, is the classiï¬Åcatory sister of Aisir’s father.
Hula, it will be remembered, is the term used by a man for another
of his own generation who is, classiï¬Åcatorily speaking, a brother,
but who being neither an actual brother nor a ï¬Årst cousin cannot
be called tuan or tesu. Now Aisir’s father's mother is the sister
of Fintimbus’ father’s mother, that is, reckoning through their
mothers these two men, Aile and Ambatinvindawu are
" brothers â€ù, or hula, since they belong to different clans} Their
two sons, therefore, Aisir and Fintimbus, are also hala. Actually
Aisir addresses Fintumbus as hala or tatai indifferently, though
according to the general rule laid down, tatai would be the more
correct. In any case the relationship is not traced through
Aisir’s mother, Luus Mbuas, who is a. classiï¬Åcatory sister of
Fintimbus (see Table B).
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j (Ndawu) I (Viiniar) (Viiniar) I (Tivulemp)
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Amsnrnzvnmnwu = Vfloormbatambur I
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FXNTIMBUS Luus Mbuas = Arm
AISIR
TABLE B.
Illustrating the Dual Relationship between Fintlmbus of Ndawu and
Aisir of Tivulemp.
(Solid lines indicate blood relationship, broken lines a " classiï¬Åcatory "
relationship.)
_ ‘ There is 1 diserepancy here, for in the kinship lists the children oi two
sisters are called ism and tum», according to the relative ages of their mothers,
]ust as are the children of two brothers, irrespective of the fact that they are
members of diflerent clans.—C. H, W.