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MARRIAGE AND RELATIONS OF SEXES I33
generally took place, in spite of the vague recognition that it
was unorthodox and not quite as it should be. People would
agree that “ things having gone so far (that is the arrangements
and the payment of pigs having been made) they could not go
back The genealogical memories of the natives are so good
that it is highly improbable that the marriage remembered only
by an old man would ever be any other than a very remote one.
According to Tota, one of Deacon’s best informants, this rule
does not concern men and women of the whole of the two clans
involved,‘ but he said that the prohibition involves people of
near kin. Thus a man may marry a woman of a group into
which another man of his own clan has married, provided that
the relationship of the two women is not “ close “. Unfortunately
there are various opinions as to what constitutes “ close " relation-
ship. Tota held that a man might marry a daughter's daughter
of the woman married previously by a man of his own group}
and another informant stated deï¬Ånitely that marriage with
the father’s sister’s daughter’s daughter's daughter's daughter
and the -mother's brother's son's daughter's daughter's daughter
were considered entirely permissible and even suitable. Further,
the prohibition against marriage into the clans of the father's
wife and father's father's wife suggests that a woman-may not
be taken from a group into which a man has married who is
“ Closely related â€ù (genealogically) to and of the same clan as
the would—be bridegroom. There is no clear statement, however,
as-to whether brothers, or those calling each other tuamgk and
iésuhgk, may marry unrelated women of the same clan, though
actually the genealogies show that this is at least uncommon.
The only clear example of such a marriage is in the village of
Iumloor where two blood brothers marry each a woman of the
village of Umas, these latter being apparently unrelated.
Certainly there are instances in the genealogies where two women
of -the same clan, but not closely related, are married by unrelated
men‘ of another clan. Thus we ï¬Ånd two men of the village
Teleleu marrying two women of Iumloor between whom there is
no evidence of relationship ; again, a man of the village
Mbwilmbar and another of the village Nemep, both belonging
‘ It is to be noted that this theoretical marriage with the daughter-'s daughter
of the woman previously married into the clan does 1.101: really throw light on
the problem since normally a girl would be very unlikely to belong to the same
clan as her mother's mother, descent being patrilineal.—C. H. W.
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