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Title: The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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gain,when a wife dies her husband is obliged tosend an ox to her family, in order to recom-pense them for their loss, she being still reck-oned as forming part of her parents fam-ily, and her individuality not being totallymerged into that of her husband. Plurality of wives is in vogue amongthe Makololo, and is, indeed, an absolutenecessity under the present conditions ofthe race, and the women would be quite asunwilling as the men to have a system of mo-nogamy iinposed upon them. No man isrespected l)y his neighbors Avho does not pos-sess several wives, and indeed without themhe could not be wealthy, each wife tilling acertain quantity of ground, and the producebelonging to a common stock. Of course,there are cases where polygamy is certainlya hardship, as, for exami)le, when old menchoose to marry very young wives. But, onthe whole, and under existing conditions,polygamy is the only possible system. Another reason for the plurality of wives,as given by themselves, is that a man with
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^^^^^TU. (1.) OVAMBO HOUSES.(See pag-e 316.)

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