That children of either sex always take the family name of their mother.
2.

That a man cannot marry a woman of his own family name.
COINCIDENT INSTITUTIONS AMONGST THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.
But not the least singular circumstance connected with these institutions is their coincidence with those of the North American Indians, which are thus stated in the Archaeologia Americana:* Independent of political or geographical divisions, that into families or clans has been established from time immemorial.

At what time and in what manner the division was first made is not known.

At present, or till very lately, every nation was divided into a number of clans, varying in the several nations from three to eight or ten, the members of which respectively were dispersed indiscriminately throughout the whole nation.
It has been fully ascertained that the inviolable regulations by which those clans were perpetuated amongst the southern nations were, first, that no man could marry in his own clan; secondly, that every child belongs to his or her mother's clan.

Among the Choctaws there are two great divisions, each of which is subdivided into four clans, and no man can marry in any of the four clans belonging to his division.