. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. dead is never spoken in thepresence of the relatives, and upon the death of any member of afamily all the others take new names—a custom noted by Ealeighscolonists on Eoanoke island more than three centuries ago. More-over, all words suggesting the name of the dead person are droppedfrom the language for a term of years, and other words, conveyingthe same idea, are substituted. The same custom exists among theComanche and iierhaps among other tribes. MAEKIAGE Marriage among the Kiowa, as among
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. dead is never spoken in thepresence of the relatives, and upon the death of any member of afamily all the others take new names—a custom noted by Ealeighscolonists on Eoanoke island more than three centuries ago. More-over, all words suggesting the name of the dead person are droppedfrom the language for a term of years, and other words, conveyingthe same idea, are substituted. The same custom exists among theComanche and iierhaps among other tribes. MAEKIAGE Marriage among the Kiowa, as among the i)lains tribes generally, isa simple affair, with none of the elaborate ceremonials found among theHopi and other sedentary Indians. About all that is necessary is that 232 CALENDAR HISTORY OP THE KIOWA [ETH. ANN. 17 the maiden of tlie young mans ciioice shall be willing, and, this havingbeen ascertained by the lover, he sends some friend as a mediator toher parents to make an ofterof ponies or other property to compensatethem for the loss of their daughter. If both sides come to an agree-. M Im 50—MiiDyi-Uii or Woiiiau-heart, a tyi»ical Kiuwa ment, tlie match is made, and the young couple, with the assistance oftheir friends, set up housekeeping on their own account. Compulsionis no more brought to bear upon the girl than in civilized communities;the brother of the girl has as much to do with the decision of the case MOONEY] MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 233 as Tier parents, and coutinnes to claim a sort of ouardiansbip over hereven after her marriage. The marriageable age is about fourteen forgirls and sixteen for boys. In general the husband goes to live amongLis wifes people instead of taking her to his own camp. The fatherseems to exercise more control over his children than among tribeshaving the clan system and mother right. There appears to be no fixedrule of inheritance, but shield, tipi, and band name usually descend iuthe male line. The husband avoids the mother-in-l
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