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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3

Note 736 — Chapter V · EARLY HISTORY OF DIVORCE

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Dorsey, "Omaha Sociology," III. Rep. of Bureau of Eth., 261,262. For further examples of easy divorce among the Indians see Turner, "Ethnology of the Ungava District," ibid., XI, 270 (Nenenot); Report Smith. Inst., 1885, 71 (Pawnees marry and unmarry at pleasure); Anchieta, "Informação," Revist. Trim. Hist., VIII, 254-62 (the woman leaves the man at pleasure in Brazil).

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