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. MARRIAGE AND RELATIONS OF SEXES I57
which a fellow clansman has within memory taken a wife, hold
good in Mewun. If this prohibition does exist there, it is evidently
not strictly adhered to to-day, for in the clan of Loories, two
sisters married men of Timrijs and Melaai, and three brothers of
Vanambangk married women of Mbriilies. Such exceptions
can, however, be paralleled in Seniang and cannot be said to
prove anything. The genealogies of the people of Mewun are,
unfortunately, very fragmentary, and in one or two of the most
complete there is little or no indication of the sex of the individum
nor of the clans to which they belong ; hence it is not possible
to arrive at any reliable conclusions concerning the regulation
of marriage, from an analysis of them. Nevertheless, it is clear
that marriages between the two districts were common, and this
strengthens somewhat the supposition that the rules controlling
the selection of a mate were for the most part the same in both.
Marriage Ritual
.The ceremony of marriage in Mewun differs from that in
Seniang in that here it takes place at the house of the bride's
father, and not in a clearing by the side of the track leading to
her village. The account given of the ritual is taken from the
marriage of Gastog, a man of Melpmes, with Liviin, whose clan
is not recorded. Liviin’s father was dead, and therefore her
brotlier, Liviisuag acted in his stead.

~s&;H2.~Ving decided that he wished to marry Liviin, Gastog went
toiher/brother and told him of his wishes.‘ Liviisuag was agreeable
to -t.-he =match- and it was settled that the bride-price should
comprise fouripigs, one big one to be paid to Livtisuag, two
smaller ones to be paid to his classiï¬Åcatory brothers, and one to
go to Liviin's mother.“
On the day of the marriage, Gastog, accompanied by the men
of his village, went out into the bush where the trees stood on
which, according to the custom of Mewun, they had kept the
tally ‘of the number of women with whom they had committed
adultery. Each man, beginning with Gastog, counted up the
number of his conquests, and for this service Gastog made gifts
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Gastog himself spdke to Liviisuag on the _rnatter.—C. H. vs].
_ ‘ It is not clear, but it seems topbe indicated that had Liv!ln‘s father been
alive, this pig would have been paid to him.-—€. H. W.