Handbook to the ethnographical collections . The rules controlling primitive marriage are hardly lessvarious than the ceremonies l)y means of which it is per-formed. Both are too numerous for description in the presentplace, but the majority are based upon such elementarypractices as marriage by capture, purchase, or exchange. Inconnection with marriage a few words may be said about. Fui. 14. — Ornament taken from Ijiril-Iife ;.New Georgia, Solomon Islands. personal adornment, since it seems certain that the primarymotive of embellishment is the desire to attract members ofthe opposi
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . The rules controlling primitive marriage are hardly lessvarious than the ceremonies l)y means of which it is per-formed. Both are too numerous for description in the presentplace, but the majority are based upon such elementarypractices as marriage by capture, purchase, or exchange. Inconnection with marriage a few words may be said about. Fui. 14. — Ornament taken from Ijiril-Iife ;.New Georgia, Solomon Islands. personal adornment, since it seems certain that the primarymotive of embellishment is the desire to attract members ofthe opposite sex, and that it thus forms an important aid tosexual selection. It is true that this subject belongs in partto each of the sections into which this introduction is divided ;since many material objects are manufactured and used forpurposes of personal adornment, and it has been proved thatmuch jewellery is in its origin anuiletic, serving to protect A concrete instance ol toteniic organization is given on p. 11-i in con-nection with Australia. 22 INTRODUCTION
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