Note 693 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT

Among the Kaniagmuts, Thlinkets, Nutkas, and the South American Guanás: Westermarck, op. cit., 215, 216. Divorce is free among the South American Charuas: Darwin, op. cit., 598. For evidence of courtship and consent among the California Indians see Bancroft, Native Races, I, 398, 411, 412. Spencer, op. cit., I, 722, 723, 754, 755, discusses the favorable position of women among the American aborigines and elsewhere, due in part to "likeness of occupations between the sexes." For further illustrations of freedom of choice or of liberty in the family see Pratz, Hist. de la Louisiane, II, 385, 389; Waitz, Anthropologie, III, 101, 103; Ratzel, Hist. of Mankind, II, 125, 128.