TRIBAL sc. L-47 



ably a transition from male to female descent 



nKli marriage, a man a-'|iiir.- the position ami privi- 

 leges of bin in law uhidi lie cannot use for him 

 .self I. ut tran>niit> to his son. These are unmistakable 

 iii'ii. ations of a f< through tin* fat I 

 Hut famous. Indeed* a woman is 

 ail vised to marry in h.-r dan. The custom of ma 

 ni'-niU-r of the same clan and of never making mat i 

 nial alliance with ont-il -rs, is called endogamy. The two 

 phratri.-s of the Tlr K'av.-ii and Wolf. The 

 amy of the British ( 'olumhian 1 nlians does not seem to be 

 -olubly bound up with tl -m of t t. mism, so 

 that we cannot always expect totemism to appear in con- 

 n with exogamy. Although many of the clans and 

 y names of these peoples are animal names, the clans 

 e Tlingit and the families of the Haida bear names 

 od from localities. Thus tin* iu-titution of t< 

 i>ru may ,-xist without tliTe being derivation of the dan 

 name from tin tot 



The British ('<>luml>ian Indians do not generally be- 

 lieve that the clan descended from the totem animal. In 

 the most common type of tradition found among the 

 Tliimit. Haida, and Tsimshian, the ancestors of the dan 

 .uiily wen- believel to have come into relations with 

 some animal in the rarly historical period and to have 

 'l.-ri\.-.i from this animal the dan name. One of these 

 traditions is somewhat as follows: some people captun .1 

 a small beaver and k-pt it as a pet because it was uu 

 and very clean. It was w 11 eared for, but by and 

 1>> it took offense at something and l>egan to compose 

 Afterwanl ou. of tin- hravt-r's ma-t-r- w.-nt 



F.Tkf Social Orynmuation and Rfrret fioriftir* of tkr Kwakimll 

 Report of th* V. \tu*>um. 1895, pp. 334 5. 431. 



