Note 381 — Chapter III · THEORY OF THE ORIGINAL PAIRING OR MONOGAMOUS FAMILY

Here and there among low races one finds examples of alleged incest recorded. Thus among the New England Indians marriages between brothers and sisters are said to have existed: Waitz, Anthropologie, III, 106. "Among these people only," says Turner of the Innuit on the Labrador coast, "have I heard of a son who took his mother as a wife, and when the sentiment of the community compelled him to discard her he took two other women, who were so persecuted by the mother that they believed themselves to be wholly under her influence." "Ethnology of the Ungava District," XI. Rep. of Bureau of Eth., 180. So also D'Evreux suspects incest, not marriage, between brothers and sisters among the Brazilian Indians: Voyage dans le Nord du Brésil, 1613-14, 85-95. On the other hand, Dobrizhoffer says the Abipones abhor marriage with near kindred: Relation, II, 212; and the same appears to be true of the Kafirs: Ratzel, History of Mankind, II, 435. See also the examples mentioned by Grosse, Die Formen der Familie, 129, 130.