This name must therefore have been brought into existence to distinguish the mother's brother at the time when, under the system of female descent, he stood in the relation of a protector and parent to the child.
The practice of serving for a wife also perhaps dates from the period of female descent.
When they did inherit the paternal totem, they were, doubtless, totemically exogamous, like all other tribes with either male or female descent.
By female descent, both the Emu and Kangaroo groups will contain persons of the Opossum, Grub, Cat, and Dingo groups.
We now turn to the question of why male tends to take the place of female descent.
All that can be said is that in the kinship organisations known to us female descent seems to have prevailed in the vast majority of cases and probably existed in the residual class of indeterminable examples.
Under the rule of female descent, on the other hand, they probably have some kinsmen in the same group but equally a considerable number of members of other totem kins.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "female descent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
