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MARRIAGE AND RELATIONS OF SEXES I35
ï¬Årst by Atawo, and afterwards by the latter’s full younger
brother Ha.’ile. It may he said, then, that there is, in general,
a recognition that the elder brother’s widow or the mother's
brother’s widow should, in the absence of motives tending to the
contrary, and if the men concerned are not disinclined, be taken
by younger brother or sister's son respectively. For a woman
to marry the elder brother of her deceased husband is strictly
prohibited. If, however, a widow had a married younger sister,
she was not uncommonly taken by the latter’s husband—a man
not necessarily, and, owing to the marriage prohibitions mentioned
above, even not usually belonging to the clan of her own late
husband.
But it is also stated that in the event of a gir1’s husband
dying, her father will procure pigs, equal in number and value
to those given for her by the deceased, and will iveus them to
the brothers of the latter, thus cancelling the marriage .by
returning the marriage price. The mats and food which were
handed over by the bridegro0m's people during the marriage
ceremonies are not given back. It seems probable, therefore,
that the inheritance of the widow by the brother or sister's son
only occurs where the marriage is not thus cancelled. The
evidence strongly suggests that this repayment of pigs would
only take place if the widow had not been long married, but the
statement is not at all explicit on this point.
In the event of a man losing his wife, he will, it is said, very
generally‘ marry her younger sister. Often, if there are two
unmarried sisters, he will in the ï¬Årst place marry both at once,
or, as mentioned above, if the elder sister be already married,
he will wed the younger sister and at a later date take the elder
also, if her ï¬Årst husband should die. An instance of this is
recorded in the genealogies as well as several examples of marriage
with two sisters. These marriages, however, cannot be regarded
in the light of marriage with the deceased wife’s sister or some
other woman of her clan, for in every case recorded, the second
union has taken place during the lifetime of the ï¬Årst wife.
The marriage with the daughter of the wife's brother seems
also to be not unusual.
That theory and practice diï¬Åer in primitive societies as much
as they do in our own, is a. fact fully appreciated by the modern
anthropologist. Nevertheless, judging from the numerous