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���Kwag'ul tale, it is even stated that the youngest of five brothers "was not taken care of by his father and was like a slave or a dog." 1

In case of the death of the eldest child, the younger brothers and sisters rank in order of their birth regardless of sex. Where there are. no children, the younger brothers and sisters of the deceased in order of birth would be the successors to his position. When there are no brothers or sisters, a father's (or mother's as the case may be) brother and sister and their des- cendants would be the successors.

Among some of the noble families, we find a strong desire to retain the privileges in the narrowest limits of the family. This is done by means of endogamous marriages. Marriages are permitted between half-brother and half-sister, i.e., between children of one father, ' but of two mothers, not vice versa] or, marriages between FlG 4 _ (p ?8l } T L ai e iiL!a,

a man and his younger brother's Numaym: DzedzEmeleqala, Tribe:

daughter, but not with his elder Nakiwax-daV 1. 2. YaxLEn. 3 -

, i, , t i r HameLas. 4. XwelageLas. 5. Hay-

brothers daughter, who is, of course, a, k. En ; Numaym: ^^ Tribe;

of higher rank, being in the line of Gwa e sEia. 6. Liaqwag'iiayug^va. 7.

primo-geniture or at least nearer to it. sgwid - 8 - L !afega. 9- Heiamas.

An excellent example is the genealogy Numay e m:


 * J wax'dax u.

represented in fig. 4. We have here maym: sesEnLie*. Tribe: Nak!- first a marriage between a man i and wax'da e x u. u. Heiamas, Numaym: his younger brother's daughter 3. G ' gxsEm - Tribe: Nakhvax'daV.

_, ., . 12. HayosdesElas. 13, 14 died as

I hen a marriage between half-brother c hndren 15. K/ene.

and sister 6 and 7 and finally between

the son n and daughter 12 of two full sisters 6 and 8. It is

expressly stated that these marriages were intended to prevent

the privileges from going out of the family. In other genealogies I

have found practically no cases of endogamy. On the contrary,

we find, so far as I can see, only exogamous marriages.

1 Franz Boas, " Ethnology of the Kwakiutl," Thirty-fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.

��G'exsEm, Tribe: Nak!- 10. G'exk'Endze, Nu-

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