In which the hair is wrapt and this Bundle is carried around for the space of a year by the nighest relative of the deceas'd[.]

In their Marriages they are allowed as many wives as they Please with the power to repudiate at pleasure have very few have more than one[.] Sisters children may Inter marery but Brothers cannot, as it is unlawfull for a man to marery a woman of the same tribe or mark, and children are Reckon[']d in the fathers tribe[.]

Their courtship is without ceremony if a Young takes a likeing to a Young woman he gets his father to speak to the Girls father, and if their is no object the Young man is invited to live in the lodge, cohabits with her yet the her father seldom gives her up entirely before she has a child untill which she must neither drink out of the vessels Eat out of the dishes nor smoke with the pipe steams that the men do at the same time or is the Young man allow[']d to speak to the Girls mother if he wants any thing from her although she were nigher Yet he will tell his wife to ask her mother for it, nor will she hand (i e the mother) hand him any thing but will give it to another to hand to him moreover his hunt belongs to his mother in law untill he gets his wife – but the father in law clothes

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