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tribes visited by the author. Tlie iiaincs of 53 kinsliip groups are still 

 reiiienibered, but there are at least a dozen otliers whose names have 

 been forfjotteii. Wliere the (|'egilia laiif;'ua}i:e. for e.\aiii])le, has but one 

 term for j;ran(lehild and one fcrandcliild f^roup, the lliloxi has at least 

 fourteen. In the ascending series the Dakota and (/'egiha do not have 

 any terms beyond grandfatlier and grandmother. I!ut for each sex the 

 Biloxi has terms for at least three dc^grees beyond the grandjiarent. 

 The (/'egiha has but one term for fatiier's sister and one for mother's 

 brother, father's brother being "iathei-,'' and mother's sister "mother." 

 I!ut the Biloxi has distinct terms (and groups) ftu- father's elder sister, 

 father's younger sister, father's elder brother, father's younger brotliei-, 

 and .so on for the mother's elder and younger brothers and sisters. The 

 Biloxi distinguishes between an elder sister's son and the son of a 

 younger sister, and so between the daughter of an elder sister and a 

 younger sister's daughter. A Biloxi man may not marry his wife's 

 brother's daughter, nor his wife's father's sister, differing in this respect 

 from a Dakota, an Omaha, a Po7ika, etc; but he can marry his deceased 

 wife's sister. A Biloxi woman may marry the brother of her deceased 

 husband. Judging from the analogy furnished by the Kansa tribe it 

 was very probably the rule before the advent of the white race that a 

 Biloxi man could not marry a woman of his own clan. 



THE TUTELO 



It is imi)ossible to learii whether the Tutelo ever camped in a circle 

 The author obtained the following clan names (descent being in the 

 female line) from John Key, an Indian, on Grand River reservation, 

 Ontario, Canada, in September, 1882: On "one side of the fire" were 

 the Bear and Deer clans, the Wolf and Turtle being on the other side. 

 John Key's mother, maternal grandmother, and Mrs Christine Buck 

 were members of the Deer clan. There were no taboos. The Tutelo 

 names of the clans have been forgotten. 



THE CATAWBA 



Dr A. S, Gatschet, of the Bureau of Ethnology, visited the Catawba 

 tribe prior to March, 1882, when he obtained an extensive vocabulary 

 of the Catawba language, but he did not record any information respect- 

 ing the social organization of the people. 



For further information regarding the Siouan tribes formerly inhal)it- 

 ing the Atlantic coast region, see "Siouan Tribes of tlie East," by 

 James Moouey, published as a bulletin of the Bureau of Ethnology. 



