MOTHERS-IN-LAW
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINE MAY BE BLESSED WITH A HUNDRED. ELASTIC MATRIMONIAL HABITS. ADELAIDE, Monday. "An Australian native may have 100 mothers-in-law, and it is his and their duty to avoid meeting if that is possible," Dr. Kenneth Fry, of Adelaide, told the Royal Geographical Society. Dr. Fry has drawn up specimen tables to show the various type'marriages among the natives. They work to a definite system, he said, which must be rigidly adhered to. "Anybody who bears the same class natne as the native's mother-in-law is also. his mother-in-law," said Dr. Fry, "and the native must do his best to avoid them. "He may have 100 or more. If there is any possibility of them meeting on a trade the mother-in-law must leave the track and hide in the grass until her son-in-law has gone by. "It is also customary for fathers-in-law and daughters-in-law to avoid one another. "No tribes allow marryipg between brother and sister, although some permit marriage between cousins. These marriage laws are very strict, and must never be broken." — i
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 252, 16 June 1932, Page 6
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