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Another irregularity that has grown up within recent times is 

 the occasional transmission of the clan war-bundle in the female line. 

 In olden times it could only be transmitted in the male line, so as to 

 prevent its passing out of the clan. It was, however, not always 

 passed to the eldest son, but to that one who, by his actions and the 

 interest he manifested in learning the legends and songs pertaining 

 to the ceremony, showed himself capable of properly providing for 

 the bundle. Now it happened occasionally that a man either pos- 

 sessed no son or that his son did not show sufhcient interest in all 

 that pertained to the bundle. In such a case the father had the 

 alternative of giving it to some near relative in the male line, and if 

 there were none of either giving it to some distant relative in the 

 male line or the son of his sister or daughter. This, of course, hap- 

 pened very rarely, and in all probability the female line would 

 eventually have to return it to the clan to which it originally belonged. 



We have described these two instances of transmission in the 

 female line in some detail in order to show how simply they can be 

 explained without the intervention of any theory that the Winne- 

 bago reckoned descent in the female line originally. Such a claim 

 has been made by Morgan and reiterated by Frazer. It seems to be 

 based on the fact that Carver found the daughter of a Winnebago 

 chief, known to the whites as Glory-of-the-Morning, and her chil- 

 dren occupying an exceptional position among the tribe, or at least 

 among the division of the Winnebago living at the upper end of 

 Lake Winnebago, Wis. Her position and that of her children, one 

 of whom has become well known in Winnabago legends, Tcap'osgaga, 

 was, however, due to the fact that she married a Frenchman named 

 Decora. She was not the chieftainess of the tribe nor were any of 

 her children, strictly speaking, chiefs of the tribe. In any case her 

 position had nothing to do with female descent and at best but 

 illustrates what we have said before about the clan to which chil- 

 dren of such a union belong. 



INDIVIDUAL NAMES 



Before turning to the specific study of each clan a few words must 

 be said about the individual names. From a purely descriptive 

 point of view the names can be arranged in nine classes: 

 I. Color. 

 II. Physiological characteristics. 



III. Social functions. 



IV. Animal and plant forms. 

 V. Animal characteristics. 



VI. Natiu'al piienomena. 

 VII. Quality. 



VIII. Episodes of a legendary character. 

 IX. Personal achievement. 



