 | American Antiquarian Society - Mammoth Cave (Ky.) - 1820 - 478 pages
...parties. The man may marry again as soon as he will, but the woman cannot during the continu284 ance of the yearly sacrifice, which lasts about twelve...determine to punish the offenders, they usually divide and proci ed to apprehend them ; one half of them go to the house of the woman, and the other to the family... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - Indians of North America - 1822 - 520 pages
...marry again as soon as he will; but the woman cannot, during the continuance of the yearly sacrifices, which lasts about twelve days. Marriage gives no right...husband owns, his hunting equipage, only, excepted. Sacrifices and Thanksgiving. " The Indians have two sacrifices in each year. The principal festival... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - Indians of North America - 1822 - 512 pages
...marry again as soon as he will; but the woman cannot, during the continuance of the yearly sacrifices, which lasts about twelve days. Marriage gives no right...and the property belonging to them and to her. Not unfrequeatly they taka away every thing the husband owns, his hunting equipage, only, excepted. Sacrifices... | |
 | George Turner - Indians of North America - 1836 - 220 pages
...complete possession of her, till the ceremony ends; and during this period, the exception will apply.] Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property...: and, when they part, she keeps the children and property belonging to them. ADULTERY — is punished by the female tribe of the husband. They collect,... | |
 | American Ethnological Society - America - 1848 - 894 pages
...complete possession of her, till the ceremony ends ; and during this period the exception will apply. " Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property...wife ; and when they part, she keeps the children and property belonging to them. Adultery. " This is punished by the family or tribe of the husband. They... | |
 | George White - Georgia - 1849 - 712 pages
...complete possession of her, till the ceremony ends; and during this period the exception will apply. Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property...wife ; and when they part, she keeps the children and property belonging to them. ADULTERY. — This is punished by the family or tribe of the husband. They... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - America - 1925 - 944 pages
...complete possession of her till the ceremony ends, and during this period the exception will apply. Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property...his wife, and when they part she keeps the children, the property belonging to them and her own." " Swan says: " If a separation is desired by either the... | |
 | John Ferguson McLennan - Endogamy and exogamy - 1896 - 632 pages
...only a compliment, as his approbation or opposition is of no avail " ; and elsewhere he states that marriage gives no right to the husband over the property...to them and to her. Not unfrequently they take away everything the husband owns, his hunting equipage only excepted." This is a state of things consistent... | |
 | John Ferguson McLennan - Endogamy and exogamy - 1896 - 634 pages
...compliment, as his approbation or opposition is of no avail " ; and elsewhere he states that marriage jjives no right to the husband over the property of his wife,...to them and to her. Not unfrequently they take away everything the husband owns, his hunting equipage only excepted." This is a state of things consistent... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 884 pages
...published in Collections of the Georgia Historical Society, volume 3, part 1, page 74, it is said : " Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property...wife, and when they part she keeps the children and property belonging to them." Colonel Hawkins was at one time a senator in Congress from North Carolina.... | |
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Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property of his wife, and when they part, she keeps the children, and the property belonging to them and to her. 
