The marriage ceremonies of many savages arc of the simplest possible description. In some places, indeed, ceremony i< almost entirely dispensed with. Brandy-drinking is the principal feature of the ceremony in some Brazilian tribes. Amongst .the Navajos it is only required of the bride and bridegroom to cat maize-pudding from the same platter. They have a rather mixed ceremony amongst the Gonds and Korkus. consisting of "eating together, tying the garments together, dancing together round a pole, being half drowned together by a douche of water, and the interchange of rings." A negress of Loango is legally married after the bridegroom has eaten from two dishes which she has cooked with her own hand and carried to his hut.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 47, 24 February 1904, Page 3
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