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Table 10. — Clan membership at Shonto {numbers in parenthesis correspond to 

 Beichard, 1928, pp. 11-13) 



Clan name and No. 



Translated name 



Number of 

 members 



Lok'adine (8)— 



Todichi'inl (29) 



Tlizitanl (14) 



Ashihlnl (32) 



Tabaxa (36) 



TacM'ini (20) 



Adoots'osnl (44) 



Bitanl (9) 



Deschi'inl (19) 



Xonagha (3) 



Klnllchi'inl (15) 



Tslnajini (17) 



Xashgha'atso (16) 



Unknown or uncertain. 



Reed - 



Bitter water 



Many goats 



Salt- 



Shore 



Red streak 



Narrow canyon.. 



Folded arms 



Red rock bend... 

 He walks around- 

 Red house.- 



Black rock 



Much yucca 



158 



118 



77 



74 



49 



28 



18 



10 



6 



2 



1 



1 



1 



25 



Total- 



668 



of supposed eastern Pueblo origin are believed at Shonto to be of 

 Zuiii origin, and the same as the Salt clan. Zuni may well be the 

 only eastern Pueblo known to many older people at Shonto. 

 Tachi'ini, a numerous clan throughout the reservation, is locally 

 supposed to be of Ute origin. 



Lok'adine, the most numerous single group at Shonto, can prop- 

 erly be considered a local clan. Probably 90 percent of its member- 

 ship is found within the Shonto, Inscription House, Cow Springs, 

 and Black Mesa communities. In other parts of the reservation it is 

 commonly thought of as a variant of the much larger xoghalani 

 (Many houses) clan, but this relationship is not recognized at Shonto, 

 although lok'adine is universally conceded to be of Hopi origin. It 

 may be of interest that all of Shonto's pottery and basketry makers 

 are members of this one clan. 



MABBIAGE 



Marriages at Shonto give an impression of far greater stability 

 than might have been anticipated (cf. Reichard, 1928, pp. 58-73). 

 However, figures on divorce may be inadequate. Leighton and 

 Kluckhohn (1948, p. 83) observed at Ramah that about 50 percent 

 of Navaho divorces occur within the first year of marriage and 83 per- 

 cent within the first 2 years — in other words, before there are chil- 

 dren. After a few years it is usually difficult to find any trace of such 

 marriages without exhaustive research. A similar situation may pos- 

 sibly obtain at Shonto, although only one yomig and childless couple 

 has been divorced in the past 4 years. 



Figures at hand would indicate that of 201 individuals in the com- 

 munity who have been married at one time or another, 153 remain 

 with their original spouses. Another 15 who are currently divorced, 

 widowed, or widowered were married once only. Thirty-three per- 



