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The Family among the Australian Aborigines, a Sociological Study

Note 141 — Chapter II · [34] MODES OF OBTAINING WIVES

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"It seems to me that the most common practice is the exchange of girls by their respective parents, as wives for each other's sons, or in some tribes the exchange of sisters, or of some female relatives by the young men themselves."—Trans. R.S.V., p. 116.

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