House-life of the American Aborigines_, p.
64. This example of mother-descent may be taken as typical of Indian
life in all parts of America at the epoch of European discovery.

[120] Morgan, _Anc. Soc._, 62, 71, 76; Hartland, _Primitive
Paternity_, Vol. I. p. 298, Vol. II. p. 65.

[121] McLennan, _Studies_, I. p. 271. Thus among the Choctas, if a boy
is to be placed at school, his uncle, instead of his father, takes him
to the mission and makes arrangements.

[122] Report of an Official for Indian Affairs on two of the Iroquoian
tribes, cited by Hartland, _op. cit._, Vol. I. p. 298. McLennan
attributes the arrangement of the marriages to the mothers (_Studies_,
ii. p. 339). This would be the earlier custom and is still practised
among several tribes.

[123] Charlevoix, V. p. 418, quoted by Hartland, _op. cit._, Vol. II.
p. 66.

[124] The customs of the Senecas have been noted by the Rev. A.
Wright, who was a missionary for many years amongst them, and was
familiar with their language and habits. His account is quoted by
Morgan, _House and House-life of the American Aborigines_.

[125] We seem here to have a suggestion of the modern plan of
co-operative dwelling-houses. It is extraordinary how many of our new
(!) ideas seem to have been common in the mother-age. Was it because
women, who are certainly more practical and careful of detail than men
are, had part in the social arrangements? This would explain the
revival of the same ideas to-day, when women are again taking up their
part in the ordering of domestic and social life.

[126] Powell, _Rep. Bur. Ethn._, I, p. 63.

[127] Owen, _Musquakies_, p. 72, quoted by Hartland, _op. cit._, Vol.
II. pp. 68-69.

[128] I have summarised the account of the Wyandot government as given
by Hartland, who quotes from Powell's "Wyandot Government," _First
Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1879-1880_, pp. 61
ff.

[129] "The Beginning of Marriage," _American Anthropologist_, Vol. IX.
p. 376. _Rep. Bur. Ethn._, XVII. p. 275.

[130] This is supposed by McGee to suggest a survival of a vestigial
polyandry.

[131] Mrs. Stevenson, _Rep. Bur. Ethn._, XXIII. pp. 290, 293. Cushing,
_Zuni Folk Tales_, p. 368, cited by Hartland, _op. cit._, Vol. II. pp.
73, 74.

[132] _Rep. Bur. Ethn._, XIII. p. 340. Solberg, _Zeits. f. Ethnol._,
XXXVII. p. 269. Voth, _Traditions of the Hopi_, pp. 67, 96, 133.
Hartland, _op. cit._, Vol. II. pp. 74-76.

[133] _Rep. Bur. Ethn.