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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3

Note 506 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT

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Turner, "Ethnology of the Ungava District," in XI. Rep. of Bureau of Eth., 188. "I knew of one instance," he adds, "when a girl was tied to a snow house for a period of two weeks, and not allowed to go out." Forcible abduction is referred to by Murdoch, "Point Barrow Expedition," ibid., IX, 412, 413. The practice also exists at Smith Sound: Bessels, in Naturalist, XVIII, Part IX; Murdoch, op. cit., 411.

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