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tious and magical or of real blood relationship. The 

 members of a group are members of that group and not 

 of another because they are related by "mana" 4 or as 

 kin to others in the group. This group of kindred trac- 

 ing relationship and descent through mothers or through 

 fathers is found in ethnic society, both savage and bar- 



From The Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



FIGURE 75. 



Baskets made by the Pima Indiana of Southern 

 Arizona. 



barian, and is generally known as the "clan.'* "Any 

 group of kindred which includes all descendants of a first 

 mother through her daughters, granddaughters, and so 

 on, and excludes all descendants through her sons, grand- 

 sons, and so on, is a metronymic clan. In like manner, 

 any group of kindred which includes all descendants of 

 a first father through his sons, grandsons, and so on, and 



4 "Mana" is that mysterious strength, virtue, grace, creating, saving, or 

 healing power which the primitive mind associates with many objects, and 

 which lie believes to be communicable or contagious. It is the basis of 

 much primitive religious belief, of magic, and of the North American In- 

 dian's "medicine." 



