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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3

Note 230 — Chapter II · THEORY OF THE HORDE AND MOTHER-RIGHT

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Ibid., 56, 57. "A man can only marry women 'who stand in the relationship of nupa, that is, are children of his mother's elder brother's blood or tribal, or, what is the same thing, of his father's elder sister.'" The mother of a man's nupa is "mura to him and he to her, and they must not speak to one another." This applies to a possible mother, i. e., the sister of the father: ibid., 61, 62.

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