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supposed relationship to these, are classified the four fuudamental activi- 

 ties of primitive life, namely, as relating to the north and its masterful- 

 ness and destructiveness in cold, is war and destruction; relating to the 

 west is war cure and hunting; to the south, husbandry and medicine; to 

 the east, magic and religion ; while the above, the below, and the middle 

 relate in one way or another to all these divisions. As a consequence 

 the societies of cold or winter are found to be grouped, not rigidly, but 

 at least theoretically, in the northern clans, and they are, respectively : 

 'H16we-kwe, Ice-wand people or band; Achia-kwe, Knife people or 

 band; Ka'shi-kwe, Cactus people or baud; for the west: Pi'hla-kwe, 

 Priesthood of the Bow or Bow people or band (Api'hlan Shiwani, 

 Priests of the Bow); Sdniyak'ya-kwe, Priesthood of the Hunt or 

 Coyote people or band; for the south: M^ke'hlana-kwe, Great fire 

 (ember) people or baud; MaketsAna-kwe, Little fire (ember) people 

 or band; of the east: Shiwana-kwe, Priests of the Priesthood people 

 or band; tJhuhu-kwe, Cottonwood-down people or band; Shi'ime-kwe, 

 or Ka'ka'hlana-kwe, Bird-monster people or band, otherwise known as 

 the Great Dance-drama people or band ; for the upper region : Newe- 

 kwe, Galaxy people or band or the All-consumer or Scavenger people or 

 band (or life preservers); and for the lower regions: Chitola-kwe, Eat- 

 tlesnake people or band, generators (or life makers). Finally, as pro- 

 duced from all the clans and as representative alike of all the clans 

 and through a tribal septuarchy of all the regions and divisions in the 

 midmost, and finally as representative of all the cult societies above 

 mentioned is the Ku'ka or Akaka-kwe or Mythic Dance drama people 

 or organization. It may be seen of these mytlio-sociologic organiza- 

 tions that they are a system within a system, and that it contains also 

 systems within systems, all founded on this classification according 

 to the six-fold division of things, and in turn the six-fold division 

 of each of these divisions of things. To such au extent, indeed, is 

 carried this tendency to classify according to the number of the six 

 regions with its seventh synthesis of them all (the latter sometimes 

 apparent, sometimes nonappearing) that not only are the subdivi- 

 sions of the societies also again subdivided according to this arrange- 

 ment, but each clan is subdivided both according to such a six-fold 

 arrangement and according to the subsidiary relations of the six parts 

 of its totem. The tribal division made up of the clans of the north 

 takes precedence ceremonially, occupying the position of elder brother 

 or the oldest ancestor, as the case might be. The west is the younger 

 brother of this; and in turn, the south of the west, the east of the 

 south, the upper of the east, the under of them all, while the middle 

 division is supposed to be a representative being, the heart or navel 

 of all the brothers of the regions first and last, as well as elder and 

 younger. In each clan is to be found a set of names called the names 

 of childhood. These names are more of titles than of cognomens. 

 They are determined upon by sociplogic and divinistic modes, and are 



