Note 589 — Chapter V · A CRITICISM OF THE HYPOTHESIS OF PROMISCUITY
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Macdonald, ‘Oceania,’ pp. 184, 192, et seq. It is remarkable, he says (p. 187), that while all children, among the Efatese, belonged, by the family name, to the mother’s family, each child had its own name, and any one bearing the name at once knew the father’s family thereby.