 ... is incidental, and perhaps of comparatively recent origin. The primary mating of the Seri is attended by observances so elaborate as to show that marriage is one of the profoundest sacraments of the tribe, penetrating the innermost recesses of tribal...  The National Geographic Magazine - Page 2791901Full view - About this book
 | W. J. McGee, John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt - Seri Indians - 1898 - 478 pages
...tribal existence. Few if any other peoples devote such anxious care to their mating as do the Seri;1 and among no other known tribe or folk is the moral...it may be made either by the prospective groom or else by his father, though not directly by the maiden or her kinswomen. In any event the prerequisites... | |
 | 1898 - 972 pages
...tribal existence. Few if any other peoples devote such anxious care to their mating as do the Seri;1 and among no other known tribe or folk is the moral...indefinite (or perhaps, rather, spontaneous); according to Mashcm it may be' made either by the prospective groom or else by his father, though not directly by... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - America - 1898 - 962 pages
...tribe, penetrating the innermost recesses of tribal thought, and interwoven with the essential tibers of tribal existence. Few if any other peoples devote such anxious care to their mating as do the 8eri;1 and among no other known tribe or folk is the moral aspect of conjugal union so rigorously guarded... | |
 | Law - 1915 - 728 pages
...other example), it must be inferred that any such custom is intratribal rather than intertribal. (c) MARRIAGE The most striking and significant social...it may be made either by the prospective groom or else by his father, though not directly by the maiden or her kinswomen. In any event the prerequisites... | |
 | Ethnological jurisprudence - 1915 - 728 pages
...other example) , it must be inferred that any such custom is intratribal rather than intertribal. (c) MARRIAGE The most striking and significant social...devote such anxious care to their mating as do the Seri ; l and among no other known tribe or folk is the moral aspect of conjugal union so rigorously guarded... | |
 | Albert Kocourek, John Henry Wigmore - Comparative law - 1915 - 734 pages
...spouseless (widowed) dames but no single men of marriageable, age. So far as could be ascertained, jjp special formalities attend the taking of supernumerary...it may be made either by the prospective groom or else by his father, though not directly by the maiden or her kinswomen. In any event the prerequisites... | |
 | Comparative law - 1915 - 730 pages
...tribal existence. Few if any other peoples devote such anxious care to their mating as do the Seri ; 1 and among no other known tribe or folk is the moral...it may be made either by the prospective groom or else by his father, though not directly by the maiden or her kinswomen. In any event the prerequisites... | |
 | Emma R. McGee - 1915 - 252 pages
...tribal thought, and interwoven with the essential fibers of tribal existence. Few if any other people devote such anxious care to their mating as do the...somewhat indefinite, or perhaps, rather spontaneous. It may be made either by the prospective groom or else by the father, though not directly by the maiden... | |
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