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10. tee, buffalo. 



11. Jio, fish. 



12. wak'a'^, snake. 



Another list was obtained in which only 10 clans were mentioned, 

 the Fish and the Snake being omitted. The clans omitted are, how- 

 ever, regarded by all as of recent origin. 



There are two older lists of Winnebago clans obtained by Morgan ' 

 and Dorsey.^ Morgan gives the following clans : 



Wolf. Eagle. Snake. 



Bear. Elk. Thunder. 



Buffalo. Deer. 



Dorsey's list is more complete, although owing to the fact that he 

 did not know of the existence of the twofold division, he classes the 

 four Bird clans as subclans of one larger Bird clan. His list differs 

 from the author's only in the absence of the Fish clan and in the fact 

 that he was still able to obtain two archaic names for the Wolf and 

 Bear clans. Dorsey's list follows: 



Wolf. Bird. Buffalo. 



Bear. a. Eagle. Deer. 



Elk. h. Pigeon. Water-monster. 



Snake. c. Hawk. 



d. Thtmderbird. 

 Foster gives a grouping of the clans according to the fauna.* His 

 list hardly was intended as an enumeration of the clans. According 

 to Foster, we have the following grouping: 



I. Thunderbird family or invisible Thunderbird people. 

 II. The air family, the visible Thunderbird people. 



III. The land or quadruped family. 



IV. The water family. 



An interesting variant of the names of the Thunderbird and Warrior 

 clans was given by one infonnant. He called the Thimderbird the 

 good thunders, and the Warrior the bad thunders. This is strikingly 

 reminiscent of the Menominee and was perhaps borrowed from them. 



The main differences in the above lists are the order of the clans, 

 the position of the Wolf clan, the presence of a general Bird clan 

 called wanirjlc by Dorsey, the double names for the Wolf and Bear 

 clans, and the absence of a Fish and Warrior clan in Dorsey's and of a 

 Hawk clan in the Ust obtained by the author. 



The position of the Wolf clan, in spite of Morgan's and Dorsey's 

 agi-eement, does not belong in the place assigned to it by them. In 

 aU probability their main informant was a member of this clan who 

 wished to give his clan a gi-eater importance than properly belonged 



2 Ancient Society, p. 157. 



> Siouan Sociology. Fifteenth Ann. Rept. Bur. .Vmer. Ettin, pp. 240-241. 



• Quoted in J. O. Dorsey's MSS. of Winnebago clan names (B. A. E.). 



