Diagram 3.
A=b | |||||||||||||||||||||||
B=a | A=b | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A | a | B | b | ||||||||||||||||||||
women of one moiety, and B and b for those of the other moiety, shows that a marriage between a man and his son's daughter would be out of the question, for it would be a case of A marrying a. It was evident that the marriage, the consequences of which I had to formulate, must have been one in which a man married his daughter's daughter.
It would take too long to go through the whole set of relationships, and I choose only a few examples which I illustrate by the following diagram :
Diagram 4.
A=b | |||||||||||||||||
D = c | |||||||||||||||||
e | F | f | |||||||||||||||
This diagram shows that if A marries e, c, who previous to the marriage had been only the
daughter of A, now becomes also his wife's mother; and D, who had previously been his
daughter's husband, now becomes his wife's father. Similarly, F, who before the new marriage was the