Note 711 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT

Such is the case among the Ainos of Yesso and the Brazilian Puris, Coroados, and Coropos: Westermarck, op. cit., 397, 398. Among the Polynesians the present seems to be designed to gain the good-will of the wife's parents, but when the wife's family is the inferior in rank, the husband, though rendering the wooing-gift, receives a dower with his bride: Wake, op. cit., 390. On the "wooing-gift" see Post, Familienrecht, 173, 175; idem, Afrikanische Jurisprudenz, I, 342 ff.; Kohler, in ZVR., V, 356; Koehne, ibid., IX, 461 (Kalmucks); Hildebrand, Ueber das Problem, 17 ff., who, as already noted, regards gift as preceding purchase; and Crawley, Mystic Rose, 386 ff., who holds that "the so-called bride-price was originally of the same class as the kalduke, a pledge, a part of one's self, given to another and received from him."