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These various gentes owned one or more sacred packs (not to be 

 confused with inchvidual personal packs) connected with an appropri- 

 ate ritual and dance : also they had special songs to be sung the night 



Fig. 137. — Fox Img made of bass-wood, in the process of construction 

 (Photograph by Michelson.) 



preceding the burial of the dead, and one or two special features in 

 burial customs. At least two possessed definite paints appropriate to 

 themselves (Bear gens, green paint; War gens, red paint). Some of 

 these gentes had subdivisions, and in such cases one of the sub- 



