352 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [eth. asn. 47 



the eastern pueblos. On the other hand, clanship at Lagiina was 

 well developed, there were 14 or more matrilineal and exogamous 

 clans, of which seven are said to have been represented among the 

 immigrants — Lizard, Sim, Eagle, Corn, Chaparral Cock, Parrot, Bear. 



What was the experience of the immigrants in connection with the 

 Isletan moiety system? Their own moiety associations, slight as they 

 were, they did not bring with them in any organized form — the kiirena 

 society remained at Lagima and the kashare at Mesita; and the 

 colonists builtnokivasatOrai'bi. What happened? The inmiigrants 

 were taken into the Isletan kiva-moiety system, to which they had 

 notliing to contribute, but wliich was familiar enough to make them 

 feel at home, and to accept as a consequence, at least, of intermarriage 

 with Isletans. 



Given intermarriage, what of adjustments in the matter of clanship? 

 Three questions here — descent, finding the Isletan equivalents in the 

 Corn groups for the Lagima clans, clan exogamy. The reckoning of 

 descent was simple enough, for the Corn groups like Keresan clans 

 are matrilineal ; as a result, we may infer, of ancient contacts wath the 

 Keres when the Isletans were themselves immigi-ant. Finding clan 

 eqiuvalents never presents difficulties to a Pueblo Indian. I have 

 noted that frequently in several towns slight resemblances suffice to 

 identify clans, so that the Laguna Lizard people were straightway 

 identified with the Earth people,^^ and the Laguna Sun people with 

 the Day people. Eagle and Corn clans have their homonyms among 

 the Corn group 5. The Laguna Chaparral Cock people might well 

 have been identified with the Magpie people, but I have no evidence 

 that they were. In fact, Casildo (Lists I, 1; II, 7), Chaparral Cock 

 clansman, belonged inferably to the Earth people. Parrot people 

 might also have been classified with Magpie people. The Bear people 

 had a more difficult problem. They may have solved it in connection 

 with the third question, the really difficult one of exogamy. The 

 Com groups, as we know, are not exogamous. Husband and wife 

 frequently belong to the same group. In several instances where it 

 was difficult to find the clan ecjuivalent it was said that a Lagima 

 person joined the Corn group of their spouse. Now if Jose Martin' 

 (Lists I, 4; II, 22), Sun clansman, joined the Day people, his wife 

 (List II, 23), Bear clanswoman, probably joined the Day people 

 also.^' 



How much the principle of exogamy has actually gone bj^ the board 

 in the Laguna colony would require a closer knowledge, family by 



''In fact, both at old Laguna and among the Ilopi, Earth or Sand is the " other name ' ' of the Lizard clan. 



=» It was their son, Pedro Martin', who in 1919 gave me the list of Isletan clans (Parsons 4: I.H), naming 

 the Isletan Corn groups as well as the Laguna clans. Some eonfiLsion resulted, but Pedro may well have 

 felt confused, if he was bom a Day (or .Sun) person at Isleta and at old Laguna he found himself a Bear 

 person. (See Parsons 12: 272-274.) About Pedro, who was called Meyushka (Keresan, MejTi, Lizard) 

 at Orai'bi, a characteristically Pueblo pun is made. How is he? Some one may ask of a visitor to old 

 Lagima. "Uis tail is still long." 



