TK'IHAI, SiM-IKTY 290 



were known a* cognati* Ainon- tin- Hindoos the clan is 

 called the (i I unions tin- Arabs tin* lln\ni. Among 



the an- i m 1 1 Mi the clan was variously culled tin- Tunth, 



//*. 10 



As only inruiiipl.'te records come down to us of social 

 among these historic peoples in the period when 

 they were organ i/ed in clans and tribeson the pa 



ni<- or-ani/atinn in -rii.-ral we shall find it more 



profitable to >tudy primitive society as it exists to-day, 



ami from this study, attempt to reconstruct a picture of 



what social relations were among the men of the pre- 



ii. period. 



MI. ri. an Indian tribal groups, especially the 

 tribes of the Iroquois confederacy and certain N 



tic Coast tribes, and tin- native tribrs of Australia, 



airly typical of important characteristics in the life 



of primitivi' JM ,,j.los. We will, therefore, study these 



l-r'unitive groups to gain a picture of social organization 



among un<-ivili/ed peoples. 



Tin- Iroquois tribes inhabited a region including the 

 part of the present states of New York, Penn- 

 sylvania and Ohio, and portions of Canada north of 

 Lake Ontario. It is thought that they originally came 

 I'mni beyond the Mississippi, making thrir way to the 

 \allry of the St. Lawrence and thence into central NV\v 

 . The five tribes of the Iroquois people were the 

 Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas. 

 The\ 1 in villages which w.-re usually surrounded 



ades, and subsisted upon fish and game, and the 

 products of a limited hortieultmv. In numbers th.-y did 



Justinian. I**titut< *. I.il-. I, XT. i, ( i. 156: abo Morgan, op. 



pp. 285308. 



Miu-ll. The Brtkom L<m. pp. 102.109. 



