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Excerpt from The Totems of Alaska Intermarriage was common between the Haidas and the Tlingits, and the same general system prevailed which prevented the marriage of near relatives. Throughout Southeastern Alaska, all families having the same emblem are deemed to be of blood relation. Should a Tlingit of the Raven family visit the Haidas m search of a wife, he would not be permitted to wed one of the Raven family of these people. Assuming that he should marry one of the Wolf clan, the children of the union would adopt the crest of the mother and, when away from home, would seek shelter in the house of Wolf totem, if their wanderings took them to the villages of other tribes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.