according to Bancroft, "where an Oleepa lover wishes to marry, he first obtains permission from the parents. The damsel then flies and conceals herself; the lover searches for her, and should he succeed in finding her twice out of three times she belongs to him. Should he be unsuccessful he waits a few weeks, and then repeats the performance. If she again elude his search, the matter is decided against him."[514] By the Siouan peoples elopement is "considered undignified, and different terms are applied to a marriage by elopement and one by parental consent."[515] Nevertheless, as among the Omahas, the custom is sanctioned. Sometimes, according to Dawson, "a man elopes with a woman. Her kindred have no cause for anger" if he takes her as his wife. "Should a man get angry because his single daughter, sister, or niece had eloped, the other Omahas would talk about him, saying, 'that man is angry on account of the elopement of his daughter!' They would ridicule him for his behavior. La Flèche knew of but one case, and that a recent one, in which a man showed anger on such an occasion. But if the woman had been taken from her husband by another man, her kindred had a right to be angry. Whether the woman belongs to the same tribe or to another the man can elope with her if she consents. The Omahas cannot understand how marriage by capture could take place, as the woman would be sure to alarm her people by her cries."[516] [504] On the form of capture, see DARGUN, _op. cit._, 86-92, 102 ff., 111 ff.; HELLWALD, _op. cit._, 286-305; GROSSE, _Die Formen der Familie_, 105 ff.; SCHROEDER, _Hochzeitsbräuche_, 14 ff.; KOHLER, "Studien," _ZVR._, V, 334 ff.; and for examples, KOHLER'S papers in _ZVR._, VII, 371 (New Guinea); VI, 333, 339, 399 (Roumania); IX, 325 (Bengal); XI, 57 (Azteks), 436 (Kamerun); REHME, "Das Recht der Amaxosa," _ZVR._, X, 38; LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 117-29; MCLENNAN, _op. cit._, I, 9-21; WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 382-90; POST, _Geschlechtsgenossenschaft_, 54 ff.; _Familienrecht_, 137-57; STARCKE, _Primitive Family_, 212 ff., 262; and illustrations in SCHMIDT, _Hochzeiten in Thüringen_, 33, 36, 40; WOOD, _Wedding Day_, 35, 46, 59, 68, 118 ff., 121-44, _passim_; and DÜRINGSFELD, _Hochzeitsbuch_, _passim_. [505] HAYES, _The Open Polar Sea_, 432; quoted by LUBBOCK, _Origin of Civilization_, 118, 119. _Cf._ also, LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 117. [506] TURNER, "Ethnology of the Ungava District," in _XI. Rep. of Bureau of Eth._, 188. "I knew of one instance," he adds, "when a girl was tied to a snow house for a period of two weeks, and not allowed to go out." Forcible abduction is referred to by MURDOCH, "Point Barrow Expedition," _ibid._, IX, 412, 413. The practice also exists at Smith Sound: BESSELS, in _Naturalist_, XVIII, Part IX; MURDOCH, _op. cit._, 411. [507] MURDOCH, _op. cit._, 411, citing EGEDE'S _Greenland_.