Note 140 — Chapter II · [34] MODES OF OBTAINING WIVES
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Speaking of the South-Eastern tribes in general, Howitt says: "It may be safely laid down as a broad and general proposition that among these savages a wife was obtained by the exchange of a female relative, with the alternative possibility of obtaining one by inheritance (Levirate), by elopement, or by capture."—Trans. R.S.V., p. 115.