60 WYANDOT GOVERNMENT: 
derived from the characteristics, habits, attitudes, or mythologic stories 
connected with the tutelar god. ; 
The following schedule presents the name of a man and a woman in 
each gens, as illustrating this statement : 
Wun-dat. English. 
Man of Deer gens De-wa-ti-re Lean Deer. 
Woman of Deer gens A-ya-jin-ta Spotted Fawn. 
Man of Bear gens A-tu-e-tés Long Claws. 
Woman of Bear gens Ts4-ma-da-ka-6 Grunting for her Young. 
Man of Striped Turtle gens Ta-h4-so"-ta-ra-ta-se Going Around the Lake. 
Woman of Striped Turtle Tso-we-yun-kyu Gone from the Water. 
gens 
Man of Mud Turtle gens Sha-yan-tsu-wat! Hard Skull. 
Woman of Mud Turtle gens Ya-diic-u-riis Finding Sand Beach. 
Man of Smooth Large Tur- Hu’-du-cu-t& Throwing Sand. 
tle gens 
Woman of Smooth Large Tsu-ca-e™ Slow Walker. 
Turtle gens 
Man of Wolf gens Ha-r6-u"-y One who goes about in the 
Dark; a Prowler. 
Woman of Wolf gens Ya"-di-no Always Hungry. 
Man of Snake gens Hu-ta-hi-sa Sitting in curled Position. 
Woman of Snake gens Di-jé-rons One who Ripples the Water. 
Man of Porcupine gens Hat-di-tu" The one who puts up Quills. 
Woman of Porcupine gens Ké-ya-runs-kwa Good-Sighted. 
THE PHRATRY. 
There are four phratries in the tribe, the three gentes Bear, Deer, 
and Striped Turtle constituting the first; the Highland Turtle, Black 
Turtle, and Smooth Large Turtle the second; the Hawk, Beaver, and 
Wolf the third, and the Sea Snake and Porcupine the fourth. 
This unit in their organization has a mythologic basis, and is chiefly 
used for religious purposes, in the preparation of medicines, and in fes- 
tivals and games. 
The eleven gentes, as four phratries, constitute the tribe. 
Each gens is a body of consanguineal kindred in the female line, and 
each gens is allied to other gentes by consanguineal kinship through 
the male line, and by affinity through marriage. 
To be a member of the tribe it is necessary to be a member of a gens ; 
to be a member of a gens it is necessary to belong to some family; and 
to belong to a family a person must have been born in the family so 
that his kinship is recognized, or he must be adopted into a family and 
become a son, brother, or some definite relative ; and this artificial re- 
lationship gives him the same standing as actual relationship in the 
family, in the gens, in the phratry, and in the tribe. 
