Note 253 — Chapter II · THEORY OF THE HORDE AND MOTHER-RIGHT

Thus, in Guinea, according to Bosman, in ordinary marriages, even when the wives were purchased, the children belonged to the mother. "It was customary, however, for a man to buy and take to wife a slave, a friendless person ... and consecrate her to his Bossum or god." In this case the "children would be born of his kindred and worship."—Bosman, Description of Guinea, 161; McLennan, op. cit., 235, 236.