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They practice polyandry.258 Infanticide was frequent among them until suppressed under the action of Government.
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In Polynesia, where polyandry was very prevalent, this custom was at one time fairly rampant.
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Under such circumstances the custom of polyandry is intelligible without further explanation.
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It is everywhere set aside, to a greater or less extent, in favour of the two forms of polygamy—polygyny and polyandry.
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Hence the original form of polygamy was probably not polygyny—the only form, practically, that later occurs—but polyandry.
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