Note 529 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT

Dargun, op. cit., 88; Schroeder, Hochzeitsbräuche, 88 ff.; Lubbock, Origin of Civilization, 85, 86, 122, 123; Post, Geschlechtsgenossenschaft, 60; McLennan, op. cit., I, 19. Bancroft gives an interesting description of the custom among the California Indians: "On the appointed day the girl, decked in all her finery, and accompanied by her family and relations, was carried in the arms of one of her kinsfolk toward the house of her lover.... The party was met half-way by a deputation from the bridegroom, one of whom now took the young woman in his arms and carried her to the house of her husband."—Native Races, I, 411.