In these groups of consanguine individuals, these clans with kinship still confused, the first thing that became most habitually differentiated was not the paternal family, for that could scarcely exist, seeing that the father of a child was not easy to designate; it was the maternal family, which we will now proceed to examine. FOOTNOTES: [928] McLennan, _Primitive Marriage_, p. 71. [929] A. Giraud-Teulon, _loc. cit._, p. 170-172. [930] Powell, _Reports of Smithsonian Institution_, 1881. [931] Owen Dorsey, _Omaha Sociology_, p. 252, in _Reports of Smithsonian Institution_, 1885. [932] Lewis Morgan, _Ancient Societies_, p. 436. [933] _Id._, _ibid._ p. 438. [934] Owen Dorsey, _loc. cit._, p. 255. [935] Owen Dorsey, _loc. cit._, pp. 254, 255. [936] _Id._, _ibid._ p. 256. [937] _Id._, _ibid._ p. 257. [938] McLennan, _Primitive Marriage_, p. 97. [939] L. Morgan, _Ancient Societies_, p. 440. [940] Owen Dorsey, _loc. cit._, pp. 262, 263. [941] _Lettres édifiantes_, t. xii. p. 130. [942] _Ibid._ p. 144. [943] Owen Dorsey, _loc. cit._, p. 265. [944] _Id._, _ibid._ p. 281. [945] Morgan, _Ancient Societies_, p. 81. [946] _Voyages du baron de Lahontan_, etc., t. ii. pp. 203, 204 (1741). [947] A. Giraud-Teulon, _loc. cit._, p. 196. [948] Holmberg, _Skizzen über die Völker des Russischen Amerika_, p. 32. [949] L. Morgan, _loc. cit._, pp. 166, 344. [950] H. Spencer, _Sociology_, vol. ii. p. 340. [951] _Id._, _ibid._, vol. ii. p. 218. [952] Squier, _States of Central America_, p. 237. [953] Brett, _Indian Tribes of Guiana_, p. 98. [954] Bancroft, _loc. cit._, pp. 664, 665. [955] L. Morgan, _Ancient Societies_, p. 538. [956] Bancroft, _loc. cit._, vol. ii. p. 680. [957] Thevet, _Singularités de la France antarctique_, p. 215. [958] A. Giraud-Teulon, _loc. cit._, p. 167. [959] Hubner, _Six semaines en Polynésie_ in _Revue des Deux Mondes_, 1886. [960] Yate, _New Zealand_, p. 99. [961] Paulding, _Hist. Univ. des Voy._, t. xvi. p. 459. [962] L. Morgan, _Ancient Societies_, p. 374. [963] _Id._, _ibid._ p. 428.--McLennan, _Primitive Marriage_, p. 375. [964] L. Morgan, _Ancient Societies_, p. 428. [965] De Varigny, _Quatorze ans aux îles Sandwich_, p. 14. [966] Cook (Second Voyage), _Hist. Univ. des Voy._, t. vii. p. 417.--Moerenhout, _Voy. aux îles_, etc., t. ii. pp. 13, 15. [967] Th. West, _Ten Years in South Central Polynesia_, p. 260. [968] Mariner, _Voy. to the Friendly Islands_, etc., vol. ii. p. 165. [969] Erskine, _Islands of the Western Pacific_. [970] M. Radiguet, _Derniers Sauvages_, p. 181. [971] Mariner, _Tonga Islands_, vol. ii. p. 98. [972] Latham, _Descriptive Ethnology_, vol. ii. p. 455. [973] McLennan, _loc. cit._, pp. 78, 79. [974] A. Giraud-Teulon, _Orig. du Mariage_, p. 268. [975] L. Morgan, _Conjectural Solution of the Origin of the Classificatory System of Relationship_, in _Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences_, 1868. CHAPTER XVIII. THE MATERNAL FAMILY.