 | George Fletcher Moore - Aboriginal Australians - 1842 - 206 pages
...children all take that of the mother. As the hunting ground or landed property descends in the male line, it follows that the land is never for two generations in the hands of men of the same family name ; and in the event of a man having several wives of different family names,... | |
 | Anthropology - 1874 - 822 pages
...the noms of the mother As the hunting ground or landed property descends in the male line, it follow that the land is never for two generations in the hands of men of the same family name, ami in the event of a man having several wives of different family names,... | |
 | Robert Brough Smyth - Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 492 pages
...children take the mother's name, and the hunting ground or landed property descends in the male line, it follows that the land is never for two generations in the hands of men of the same family name ; and in the event of a man having several wives of different family names,... | |
 | Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 490 pages
...children take the mother's name, and the hunting ground or landed property descends in the male line, it follows that the land is never for two generations in the hands of men of the same family name ; and in the event of a man having several wives of different family names,... | |
 | George Fletcher Moore - Aboriginal Australians - 1884 - 588 pages
...children all take that of the mother. As the hunting ground or landed property descends in the male line, it follows that the land is never for two generations in the hands of men of the same family name ; and in the event of a man having several wives of different family names,... | |
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... which the aborigines of Western Australia appear to be divided. The general laws relating to marriage have reference to these families. No man can marry a woman of his own family name ; and the children all take that of the mother. As the hunting... 