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iodone on any part. There was no such thing as jealousy am ong them, allliving as best pleased them, w ithout taking offense at one an o th er.. . ------------- the houses they dwelt in were common to a ll, and so spacious that theycontained 160 persons, strongly built, though covered w ith palmtree leaves,and shaped like a bell.” | These tribes used earthen vessels, w ere in LowerState o f Barbarism. D erselbe27 Herrera, speaking o f the coast tribes o fB ra zil: “ T h ey live in bohios, or large thatched cottages, o f w hich there areabout 8 in every village, full o f people, w ith their nests or ham m ocks tolye in they live in a beastly manner, w ithout any regard to justiceor decency.”Bei d. Entdeckung of N orth Am erica in its several parts, the punaluan familyseems to have entirely disappeared; synd(j)asm ian form o f family, aber environedwith the remains o f the ancient conjugal system. Eine custom z.B . nochjetzt anerkannt in mindestens 40 N orth Am erican Indian tribes. Heiratheteein M ann d. älteste Tochter einer fam ily, so dch custom entitled to a ll hersisters as wives when they attained the m arria gea ble age. D as Recht seltenenforced, w egen d. Schw ierigkeit several families to maintain, obgleichPolygyny28 allgemein anerkannt as privilege o f the males. Früher - pünalüa - 29ow n sisters w ent into the marriage relation on the basis o f sisterhood;nach Absterben d. pünalüan fam ily the right remained w ith the husbando f the eldest sister to becom e the husband o f all her sisters, if he chose.Dies genuine revival o f the ancient pünalüan custom.2) Origin o f the Organisation into gentes.P artial development o f gentes in the Status o f savagery, com plete developmentin the Lower Status o f barbarism. Germ of gentes found in the Australianclasses w ie in d. Hawaiian punaluan group. T h e gentes are also found am ongthe Australians, based upon the classes, with the apparent manner o f theirorganisation out o f them ------ Its (the gentile organization’s) birth must besought in pre-existing elements o f society, and its maturity w ould be expectedto occur lon g after its origination.Two o f the fundamental rules o f the gens in its archaic form found in the A u stra l­ian classes, the prohibition o f intermarriage between brothers and sisters, anddescent in the fem ale30 line. ... und w hen gens appeared, the children are foundin the gens o f their mothers. Natural adaptation o f the classes to give birth to thegens sufficiently obvious . . . U nd in Australien the fa ct: gens here found [actuallyin connection with an antecedent and more archaic organisation, die s till the unito f a social system, Platz später dch die gens eingenommen.Germ o f gens ebso found in Hawaiian punaluan group, aber confined to thefem ale branch o f the custom , w o several sisters, ow n and collateral, sharedtheir husbands in com m on. D iese Schwestern, mit ihren K indern u.descendants through females, liefern the exact membership o f a gens o f thearchaic type. D escent hier nothw dg traced dch females, da paternity d.children nicht mit certainty ascertainable. Sobald diese specifische Formder Ehe in the group etablirte Institution, the foundation fo r a gens existed.Ill