The Position of Woman in Primitive Society: A Study of the Matriarchy

by C. Gasquoine Hartley

[84] Lettres edefiantes et curieux, Vol. XVIII, p. 441, copied in Dunhalde, Description de la Clune, Vol. I, p. 166, and cited by McGee.

[85] Dalton, Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal, pp. 64, 142. See also Tylor, “The Matriarchal Theory,” Nineteenth Century, July 1896, p. 89.

[86] Moore, Marriage Customs: Modes of Courtship, etc., p. 261. Rengger, Naturgeschichte der Säugelliere von Paraguay, p. 11, cited by Westermarck, op. cit., p. 158.

[87] J. M. Wheeler, “Primitive Marriage,” an article in Progress, 1885, p. 128.

[88] McGee, “The Beginning of Marriage,” American Anthropologist, Vol. IX.

[89] Haddon, “Western Tribes of the Torres States,” Journal of the Anthropological Society, Vol. XIX, Feb. 1890. Cited by Havelock Ellis, Psychology of Sex, Vol. III, p. 185.

[90] For further examination of this question of the supposed passivity of the woman in courtship, see The Truth about Woman, pp. 65-69, 251-257.

[91] Die socialen Einrichtungen der Pelauer. Die Religion, de Pelauer. Mr. Frazer, Golden Bough, Part IV, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, pp. 387 et seq., summarises the account of Kubary. See also Waitz-Gerland, Vol. V, Part II, p. 106 et seq., and an account of the Pelews given by Ymer.

[92] Semper, Die Palau-Inseln, p. 68, cited by Westermarck op. cit., p. 211.

[93] Ymer, Vol. IV, p. 333.