Show CURIOUS PAPUAN LAWS tribe where Si disten children inherit I 1 a mans A methodist missionary in british new ew guinea now known as papua rev hev W E brownlow has added to the hie worlds knowledge of the curious and little known races ot of the great I 1 north pacific island by the discovery and partial taming of a new the race in question consists of about blacks living at a place called hg the customs bugl ams of the race are must curious I 1 tho the immigration policy is more drastic than viat that of white australia for all strangers have either to become full members of the tribe or be I 1 eaten when hen dealing with mr brownlow however the difficulty was got over by making ulm lim a father of the tribe each tribe and each family had their own land and no portion is allowed to go out of their possession except as a loan tor for a seasons crop the men marry out of their own tribe and on their death their land becomes the property of 0 their sisters children women have great influence in the affairs ot of the tribe and their duties are quite distinct from those of the men the men dear clear the bush and dig the ground then the women prepare it and plant yams bams the crop being theirs it if a man wants any yams bams he has to ask tor for them the banana patch however Is his own wives are obtained by purchase if a man pays well for his wife he can thrash her occasionally but she could leave him it if she did not like it and so go back to her own village their heaven Is a place where the health healthy strong and good looking go all the others go to hell london londo chronicle |