The episode of Rachel's theft of the images also seems to indicate that she intended to take her own household gods with her and not to adopt those of her husband's house.

And Laban's chief anxiety was for the recovery of the images.

A relic of the husband's residence with his wife's family during the period of female descent may perhaps be found in the Banjara caste, who oblige a man to go and live with his wife's father for a month without seeing her face.

Under the patriarchal system this rule of the Banjaras is meaningless, though the general practice of serving for a wife survives as a method of purchase.
Among the Australian aborigines apparently the clans, or sections of them, wander about in search of food and game, and meet each other for more or less promiscuous intercourse.

This may perhaps be supposed to have been the general primitive condition of society after the introduction of exogamy combined with female descent.