Each marital grouping possesses two house sites, each site with a house built upon it. The woman has her house in her village, the man has his house in his village. The couple with their children live alternately in the woman’s house in the village of the woman’s matrilineal kin, and in the man’s house in the village of the man’s matrilineal kin. The change in residence usually takes place each gardening year, so that the one spouse spends alternate years in the other’s place and alternate years in own place; but some couples move more frequently to and fro. It is thus required that every person spend at least every alternate year, he with his sister and mother, she with her brother and mother (and, of course, mother’s brothers and sisters). Since every family grouping moves in this fashion, it follows that when a man is in his village his wife is also there, if his mother is in her village his father or his stepfather is also there, and if his sister is in her village his sister’s husband is also there. His mother’s brother may also be at home. Then his mother’s brother’s wife will be there. He and his sister, his mother with her sisters and brothers are all owners of the village land where they are resident, owners of the houses built upon it, and owners of the palms growing about the village.³

³Fortune, R.F.n/an/an/an/a, , 405 (London: George Routledge and Sons: New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. By permission).