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When a Zuni Wife Tires of Her Husband She Expects Him To Leave
AT Zuni, New Mexico, the domestic position of woman is exactly reversed to that which exists among more highly civilized people. The woman owns the house and at marriage she takes her husband to her own household, where he stays so long as he is welcome. In the Scientific Monthly Elsie Clews Parsons writes an interesting article on the differentiation of the sexes at Zuni. She says in part:
Zuni women own their houses and their gardens or, perhaps it is better to say, gardens and houses belong to the family through the women. At marriage a girl does not leave home; her husband joins her household. He stays in it, too, only as long as he is welcome. If he is lazy, if he fails to bring in wood, if he fails to contribute the produce of his fields, or if someone else for some other reason is preferred, his wife expects him to leave her household. He does not wait to be to ....

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