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ing the partial disintegration of the old system. At the present time 
the house of the priestess of the clan is considered the home of that 
clan, and she has much to say about proposed marriages and other 
social functions. There is no doubt that in ancient times the localiza- 
tion of clans was rigidly enforced, as much by circumstances as by 
rule, and the ground plans of all the ruins were formed by it. As 
has been before suggested, a resurvey of the villages of Tusayan and 
a relocation of the clans, after an interval of some years, would 
probably develop data of the greatest value to the student of pueblo 
architecture, when compared with the plans here presented. 
