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Lax-q'al-ts !a'p. 



Ganha'da group: Ganha'da, G"id-x*q!add'q. 

 Wolf group: Lax-kvbo'. 

 Eagle group: Lax-skl'°k, G'isgap.'Ena'x. 

 Andeguale'. 



Ganha'da group: Lax-se'°la. 

 Wolf group: G"it-g'ig'e'nix\ 

 G'it-wunkse'lk. 



Wolf group: Lax-t!ia'ql. 

 Eagle group : Lax-lo'°kst. 

 G'ispawadwE'da group: G'isg'aha'st. 

 Git-lax-da'mlks. 



Ganha'da group: Lax-se'°la. 

 Wolf group: Git-wul-nakMe'l. 

 Eagle group: Lax-skl'°k, Lax-ts lEme'lix*. 

 It seems to me that these groups, which are based entirely on 

 information secured in the new village Kinkolith, need corroboration, 

 particularly their peculiar distribution and the apparent appearance 

 of the same name as a group name and as that of a subdivision. 1 It 

 is remarkable that only the G'ispawadwE'da appear here confined 

 to one single village, G'it-wunkse'lk; that the Eagle group occurs in 

 all except Andeguale', the Ganha'da group in all except G'it- 

 wunkse'lk, while the Wolf group is common to all of them. 



From the same source I learned that the G'it-wunlko'l, on the 

 upper Skeena River, whose dialect is said to be intermediate between 

 the Xass and G'it-ksa'n dialects, are considered a separate tribe, and 

 have the Ganha'da and Wolf groups. 



Chief Mountain gave the following, avowedly incomplete, list of 

 G'it-ksa'n villages and groups: 



Village: G'it-wunga' (Dorsey, Kit-win-gach). 



Ganha'da and Eagle. 

 Village: Gidzigu'kla (Dorsey, Kitze-gukla). 



Ganha'da arid G'isg'aha'st. 

 Village: Gispa-yo'ks (Dorsey, Kish-pi-yeoux). 



Ganha'da and Wolf. 

 Village: G'it-an-ma'k's (Dorsey, 2 Kit-an-maiksh). 

 It appeare from these data that there are two intercrossing divis- 

 ions among the Tsimshian tribes — one a tribal division based essen- 

 tially on village communities consisting of clan fellows; another one 

 a subdivision of the exogamic groups according to their provenience. 

 Some additional data are available which explain these relations 

 among the Tsimshian proper. 



1 Dorsey. p. 279, does not ment ion the first and second of theNass villages, but has the following in addi- 

 tion: Kit-aLx, Lak-imgidu, Kitdak-aons, Kis-themu-welgit. 



= Dorsey, pp. 278, 279, has, in addition to these, Kish-ga-gass, Kaul-daw, Kit-win-kole, the last identical 

 with the tribe G it-wunlko'l. 



