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ple usually submit quietly to their decision. Sometimes the women 
councilors consult with the men. 
When a girl is betrothed, the man makes such presents to the mother 
as he can. It is customary to consummate the marriage before the end 
of the moon in which the betrothal is made. Bridegroom and bride 
make promises of faithfulness to the parents and women councilors of 
both parties. It is customary to give a marriage feast, in which the 
gentes of both parties take part. For a short time at least, bride and 
groom live with the bride’s mother, or rather in the original household 
of the bride. 
The time when they will set up housekeeping for themselves is usually 
arranged before marriage. 
In the event of the death of the mother, the children belong to her 
sister or to her nearest female kin, the matter being settled by the coun- 
cil women of the gens. As the children belong to the mother, on the 
death of the father the mother and children are cared for by her nearest 
male relative until subsequent marriage. 
NAME REGULATIONS. 
It has been previously explained that there is a body of names, the 
exclusive property of each gens. Once a year, at the green-corn festival, 
the council women of the gens select the names for the children born 
during the previous year, and the chief of the gens proclaims these 
names at the festival. No person may change his name, but every per- 
son, man or woman, by honorable or dishonorable conduct, or by re- 
markable circumstance, may win a second name commemorative of 
deed or circumstance, which is a kind of title. 
REGULATIONS OF PERSONAL ADORNMENT. 
Each clan has a distinctive method of painting the face, a distinctive 
chaplet to be worn by the gentile chief and council women when they 
are inaugurated, and subsequently at festival occasions, and distinctive 
ornaments for all its members, to be used at festivals and religious cere- 
monies. 
REGULATIONS OF ORDER IN ENCAMPMENT AND MIGRATIONS. 
The camp of the tribe is in an open circle or horse-shoe, and the gentes 
camp in following order, beginning on the left and going around to the 
right: 
Deer, Bear, Highland Turtle (striped), Highland Turtle (black), Mud 
Turtle, Smooth Large Turtle, Hawk, Beaver, Wolf, Sea Snake, Porcu- 
pine. 
The order in which the households camp in the gentile group is regu- 
lated by the gentile councilors and adjusted from time to time in such a 
manner that the oldest family is placed on the left, and the youngest 
on the right. In migrations and expeditions the order of travel follows 
the analogy of encampment. 
