The Origins of Camwood

Young people were always giving little presents of cloth as marks of respect to fathers, mothers, uncles and the like. If an adulterer was caught, he was expected to pay 50 or a hundred cloths to the woman's husband. Cam wood, a rare, imported wood used for the manufacture of cosmetics, was the high denomination currency. A hundred rafhea cloths were equivalent to three to five bars. Men could not use money to acquire women, nor can they use it to claim any rights over children. Children belonged not to their father's clan, but to their mothers.