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equally well be used by tribes with clans or without clans, and when 
we get to the next generation we find the children of the father's 
brothers and those of the mother's sisters called alike by the same 
terms as the own brothers and sisters. They might all belong to the 
same clan, it is true, but only in case there were but two exogamous 
groups in the tribe or in case Pareja has merely recorded the terms 
used in such cases. Distinction of descent as between father and 
mother is carefully preserved also in the generation succeeding, a 
man calling his brothers' children by the same terms as his own chil- 
dren, and a woman her sisters' children by the same names as her 
own children, while the sisters' children and brothers' children, re- 
spectively, receive still other terms. Of course this might indicate 
exogamous groups, as it is probable there would be a feeling against 
intermarriage between persons calling themselves brothers and sis- 
ters, but unless we suppose, as already stated, only two exogamous 
groups there is no reason why the children of brothers should belong 
to the same clan. The mother's brother's child is called by the same 
name as his own child by a man and by the same name as her brother's 
child by a woman. These two terms suggest a clan organization 
more strongly than any others, but do not establish it. The individ- 
uals of these classes might have been categorized together without 
any further extension of the terms. If we assume but two exogamous 
groups among the Timucua the above terms will fall in with it harmoni- 
ously, but there is every reason to suppose that there were more; 
and, such being the case, we find that many groups of persons re- 
ceive one name not because they are of one clan but because they 
bear a certain blood relation to self or because their parents had 
received a certain name. With more than two clans the children of 
brothers are not necessarily of one clan. If they then call each other 
brothers and sisters it is evidently on account of the relationship 
between their fathers. I call my brothers' children by the same 
name as mine, although they may belong to several clans, simply 
because their fathers are my brothers. Precisely this classification 
is found among the Creeks, except that with them a term is used 
which distinguishes my actual children from the children of my clan 
brothers. Both, however, convey the significance of "my son" or 
"my boy," and the distinction introduced does not follow clan lines. 
One includes my actual children ; the other children of my clansmen, 
whether they are of the same clan as my children or not. 
We have several documentary statements regarding the existence 
of matrilineal descent and the inheritance of the sister's son. All 
beyond this that we know of the clan system of the Timucua is con- 
tained in the following paragraphs of Pareja, which I quote from 
Gatschet's translation with one or two small corrections. It occurs 
in the original immediately after the terms of relationship. 
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