ell as animal skin. The Tahitians take a lot of pride in bathing and perfuming the body and keeping the house clean. There have been years of dirty housing on the Nootka habitations. Social groups within the two are similar, the subdivision of rank are a graduation from top to bottom. Tahitians rank in terms of economic, political and religion power. Two of the basic groups of people are, the family of the chief the Arili then the Ra ‘atira and finally the rest are. The Nootka rank by a mean of primogeniture which mean that the father is the head, succeeded by the first son and his son becomes the head after him, the other sons if any my never get a chance of becoming the head.The Tahitians have a tradition of giving their child away as way of means of re-distributing population. They have also practiced infanticide but this is rare. The similarities in the social structure come in where the great discrimination is based on sex differences and generation difference. There is no distinguishing between a cousin, son, or a daughter, that is there no such relations there kids and adults and old folks are termed ancestors. Pattern of etiquette and general social conduct tied to the rank system and religion is very intricate for the Tahitians. The society have been characterized as divided into feudal like social class, for example slave and free man are the primary division of class.For fighting purposes they both had had encounters from groups from neighboring societies, the Nootka take war very seriously and rituals are strictly followed. The Tahitians keep their enemies as slave and hostages. Cannibalism is not practiced but the sacrifices of captives are done in religious rituals. The weaponry is basically the same but the way of going to battle is more planed and rehearsed for the Nootka.Taboos are a feature of both cultures. The Tahitians do not allow higher rank member to eat with lower rank members. The Nootka do not allow th...
