A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3Howard, George Elliott
History
A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3
Howard, George Elliott
Families; Marriage -- History
(Chicago, 1893); Powell, "Wyandotte Society," in _Proc. Am.
Assoc. Adv. Sci._, XXIX (Salem, 1880); Beauchamp, "Permanence of
Early Iroquois Clans and Sachemships," _ibid._, XXXIV (Salem,
1886); Mallery, "Israelite and Indian," _ibid._, XXXVIII (Salem,
1890); Fletcher's papers on totemism and animism in "Emblematic
Use of the Tree in the Dakotan Group," and her "Study from the
Omaha Tribe," both _ibid._, XLV, XLVI (Salem, 1897-98); Halbert,
"Courtship and Marriage among the Choctaws of Mississippi," in
_Amer. Naturalist_, March, 1832; Carr, "The Social and Political
Position of Women among the Huron-Iroquois Tribes," _XVI. Rep.
of Peabody Museum_ (Cambridge, 1883).
Very valuable early notices of the social customs of the
Brazilian Indians may be found in Stade, _Captivity among
the wild Tribes of eastern Brasil, 1547-55_ (London, 1874);
Anchieta, "Informação dos Casamentos dos Indios do Brasil,"
in _Revista Trimensal_, VIII (Rio de Janeiro, 1867); Souza,
"Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587," _Revista do Instituto
Hist. e Geog._, XIV (Rio de Janeiro, 1851); Léry, _Du mariage,
polygamie, et degrez de consanguinité_ (3d ed., Geneva, 1585);
D'Evreux, _Voyage dans le nord du Brésil, 1613-14_ (Leipzig and
Paris, 1864); Moure, "Les Indiens de la province de Matto-Grosso
(Brésil)," in _Nouvelles annales des voyages_, 1862, II
(Paris); Guimarães, "Costumes e Linguagem dos Appiaacás ...
de Matto-Grosso," in _Revista Trimensal_, VI (2d ed., Rio de
Janeiro, 1865); and Magalhães, "Familia e Religião Selvagem,"
_Revista Trimensal do Instituto_, etc., XXXVI (Rio de Janeiro,
1873, 1876). With these may be read the important accounts of
Lafitau, _Mœurs des sauvages_ (Paris, 1724); Pratz, "Des mœurs
et coutumes des peuples de la Louisiane (Natchez)," in his
_Hist. de la Louisiane_, II (Paris, 1758); and Dobrizhoffer's
description of "weddings" and "marriages" in his _Account of the
Abipones, an Equestrian People of Paraguay_ (London, 1822; Latin
ed., 1784), among whom he lived as missionary for eight years
after his arrival in 1749. There is also a very interesting
passage in Humbolt, _Vues de Cordillères_ (Paris, 1810). See
further Von den Steinen's _Unter den Naturvölkern Brasiliens,
1887-8_ (Berlin, 1894); Martius, _Von dem Rechtszustande
unter den Ureinwohnern Brasiliens_ (Munich, 1832); which is
reprinted with other matter in his _Beiträge zur Ethnographie
und Sprachenkunde Amerikas zumal Brasiliens_ (Leipzig, 1867);
and Adam, _Du parler des hommes et du parler des femmes dans
la langue Caraïbe_ (Paris, 1879). Much material is also
contained in Rink, _Eskimo Tribes_ (Copenhagen and London,
1887); his _Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo_ (Edinburgh
and London, 1875); Catlin, _North American Indians_ (London,
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