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“"W" 1 $1 E la ii ,. it . .)...,.,;=,m.,._.._ H l l 1 KINSHIP ORGANIZATION IN NORTH AND EAST 123 which is not reciprocal. Lastly, attention must be drawn to the fact that there is no distinctive word for the mother’s brother’s wife ; that she is referred to only in terms of her husband. Two Lists of kinship terms and a few fragmentary notes on social organization were recorded by Dr. Rivers from the coastal districts of East Malekula, which have not as yet been published. One of these comes from the Island of Uripiv, which together with Uri Isle, lies off the east coast of Lagalag. Because of the interest which attaches to a comparison of the kinship terms of this region with those of Senbarei (as recorded by Deacon), Rivers’ notes are given here} Ir1vUripiv there are altogether seven villages which are divided into two groups. These two groups, it is said, were, in days gone by, constantly at war with one another, and the evidence seems to indicate that they were probably exogamous. As on the mainland, each village, or more likely each village group, was occupied by men of a single clan together with their wives, membership of the clan being determined through the father. Marriage oi a man with a woman of his own clan or of that of his mother was prohibited, and it was therefore common to seek a wife from the mainland or from one of the neighbouring islands. The rule against a man marrying a -member of his mother's clan makes it clear that, although the two village groups may each have been exogamous, yet we have not here an instance of true dual organization—of a community divided into two patrilineal moieties. Rather it seems that the social structure of Uripiv is similar to that of the mainland: an organization based upon a number of patrilineal local clans, of which on this small island only two remain. Whether toternism exists in Uripiv is not certain, but it is reported that the people of one village may not eat shark because one of their male ancestors was turned into such a. creature. The members of another village may not eat octopus since a woman of Atchin Island married a man of this place.“ ‘ For permission to make use oi these notes of the late Dr. Rivers, I am indebted to the kindness of Professor G. Elliot Smi1:h.—C. H. W. ‘ S0 runs the statement ; it seems that the octopus was sacred to the Atchiu woman and that this "sanctity " was pissed on to her descendants. If this is so, then it is an interesting example oi a “ totem â€ù being handed down from the m0t.he1'.—C. Hi W. x I
