[508] BECKWITH, "Customs of the Dakotahs," _Rep. Smith. Inst._, 1886, Part I, 256 (abduction with purchase). Among the Siouan Indians, according to MCGEE, there is no marriage by capture; but captive women are sometimes espoused and girls are occasionally abducted: _XV. Rep. of Bureau of Eth._, 178. [509] CARVER, _Travels_, 374; LETOURNEAU, _L'évolution du mariage_, 118; LUBBOCK, _Origin of Civilization_, 85. A similar custom exists among the Khands of Orissa: LUBBOCK, _op. cit._, 114; MCLENNAN, _Studies_, I, 13-15; POST, _Familienrecht_, 144. [510] DARGUN, _Mutterrecht und Raubehe_, 88, who names many other peoples among whom the like custom prevails. _Cf._ LUBBOCK, _op. cit._, 123, 113 ff.; BURCKHARDT, _Notes on the Beduins and Wahabys_, I, 263, 108, 234. _Cf._ KOHLER, "Das vorislamitische Recht der Araber," _ZVR._, VIII, 247, 248. [511] LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 118, 119; _cf._ LUBBOCK, _op. cit._, 117, 118. In Kamchatka, according to MÜLLER, _Description de toutes les nations de l'empire de Russie_, II, 89, "attraper une fille est leur expression pour dire marier."--LUBBOCK, 118. [512] BANCROFT, _Native Races_, I, 732, 733. For further examples of "ceremonial" capture or abduction, see PEAL, "On the 'Morong,'" _Jour. Anth. Inst._, XXII, 255; KLEMM, _Kulturgeschichte_, IV, 27 (Tscherkessen). [513] DARGUN, _Mutterrecht und Raubehe_, 88, 89, 108 ff.; LUBBOCK, _op. cit._, 118-20. [514] BANCROFT, _op. cit._, I, 389. [515] DORSEY, "Siouan Sociology," _XV. Rep. of Bureau of Eth._, 242. Compare MCGEE, "Siouan Indians," _ibid._, 178, who says elopements are sometimes sanctioned. [516] DORSEY, "Omaha Sociology," _III. Rep. of Bureau of Eth._, 260, 261.