[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.
I. The Familial Clan and the Family properly so-called.—The probable evolution of the family—It cannot have been uniform—Why the uterine family has been common.
II. The Family in Africa.—The maternal family among the negroes of Africa, in Egypt, in Abyssinia, in Madagascar, among the Arabs and Kabyles.
III. The Family in Malaya.
IV. The Family among the Naïrs of Malabar.—The female progenitrix, the mother-bee—The uncle among the Naïrs.