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Family..……  …………....….……  49VINCENT A.KoPPERT  \nThe Early History of the Family………...  ……56JoHN M.CoOPER  \nWitiko among the Tete-de-Boule.…..…  69JoSEPH E.GUINARD  \nKalingge Riddles………  …·.………  7IFRANCIS BILLIET  \nAn Ibaloi Tale...…………..…·…………·75ALFONso CLAERHOUDT  \nThe Cuinis and Cullaris of Western Australia.…   ……………77  \nE.ALCALDE  \n# PRIMITIVE MAN\n\nQuarterly Bulletin  \nof the  \nCatholic Anthropological Conference  \n\n| Vol.IiI   | July and October,1930  \u003Cbr>二   | Nos.3 and 4   |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n# THE NO0TKA FAMILY\n\nREV.VINCENT A.KoPPERT,O.S.B.,PH.D.Mt.Angel Abbey,Oregon  \nTHE Nootka Indians are scattered along the whole west coastline of Vancouver Island,British Columbia.Numbering3698 in 1881,they have since then,according to the official census(I929),dwindled down to I634.Though the Nootka are nowsmall in numbers.there are no less than nineteen sub-tribes amongthem.Apart from dialectic differences.all speak the same lan-guage and have a similar culture.In social groupings within thesub-tribes,we find class distinctions of nobility,commoners andslaves.Family life within each group is very similar.The datagiven in the present paper have been obtained by the writer partlyfrom the published sources and partly from his personal observa-tions and studies among the Nootka in the summers of I923 andI929.  \nIn prospect of marriage the common manner of acquiring awife is through purchase.Payment is made in blankets,canoes,mats or in such other commodity as is agreed upon.Bare pur-chase suffices for ordinary tribal marriage.But should a chief'sdaughter or relative marry,ceremony accompanies purchase.Asfor chiefs,it is not uncommon for them to purchase wives but  \neight or ten years old.While purchase is made at such early age,the young brides remain under parental care until they are sixteenyears old or thereabouts.The custom is one based merely on theassurance of securing the bride before another chief should makesuch purchase.  \nA head chief does not marry indiscriminately.He chooses adescendant in the direct line of a chief of equal rank.Even inthis,there is not absolute freedom of choice,for as regards takinga first wife for himself or giving his children of a first wife inmarriage,a chief must abide by the will of his tribe.  \nWife purchasing is more or less a public matter and ordinarilyis a simple procedure.but carried out ceremonially in the case oftribal nobility.There is always the usual barter as to price anddowry.The marriage ceremony itself varies.The following ritesare typical.  \nIn one method the ceremony simulates the capture of a whale.A procession forms on the beach nearest the party lodge.Firstof all a canoe containing three men is borne on the shoulders ofeight others.The Indian in the bow of the canoe is the harpoonman;the one in the center handles the seal-skin buoy;the thirdmember at the stern paddles,as it were,and steers.At the sametime an Indian dressed in a blanket that hides his head crawlsalong on all fours just ahead of the procession,occasionally raisinghis body in imitation of a whale rising to blow.At intervals theharpoonist throws as if to make a strike,being careful always.however,against injury by a direct hit.Friends.following thecanoe thus borne,sing to the accompaniment of drums and rattles.The burden of their song is their purpose to purchase a wife forone of their number,a narration of his merits,and the assuranceof a fine bargain in blankets.  \nAs the lodge is reached.members making the procession stepaside while the Indian in the bow of the canoe throws his harpoonwith such force against the plank serving as a door that he splits it.The split door is,however,kept barred,as the visitors pile a num-ber of blankets and skins against it and,then resting,wait to beadmitted.  \nAfter the visitors chant a while and place more blankets on thepile,a second harpoon is hurled against the door,a veritable cupid'sdart.And yet if the purchase price does not 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