MACCAULEY. ] CLANS OF THE SEMINOLE. 507 
THE SEMINOLE GENS. 
Of this larger body of kindred, existing, as I could see, in very dis- 
tinct formamong the Seminole, I gained but little definite knowledge. 
What few facts I secured are here placed on record. 
After I was enabled to make my inquiry understood, I sought to 
learn from my respondent the name of the gens to which each Indian 
whose name I had received belonged. As the result, I found that the 
two hundred and eight Seminole now in Florida are divided into the 
following gentes and in the following numbers: 

TIE NAN S 1 Vee nape een cee aaedocicad PAU) fe, Ne) ra Cas aeReceIpSCAaOeseoac 4 
Ae O re CUS teeta ramet nei hala aiosie Stet ||) IshONV OSE (2) aa So ee Same emcee 1 
EO G TET) S Ss ROSAS OOS Seat Oe OeeA oe AOR ONG mam) ean oes 1 
4. Bird gens..--..... RSA peewee 4l Unknown) Pentesss-o-s)ac~- o- == 10 
Tis WROTE ae Sins coedoe ce coesncns 18 
GPT AKGWTONS wna elecwiaemsciecae eos 15 TOW oes os ae onsds pastes 208 
I endeavored, also, to learn the name the Indians use for gens or clan, 
and was told that it is ‘* Po-ha-po-htim-ko-sin;” the best translation I 
can give of the name is ‘“‘ Those of one camp or house.” 
Examining my table to find whether or not the word as translated 
describes the fact, I notice that, with but one exception, which may not, 
after all, prove to be an exception, each of the twenty-two camps into 
which the thirty-seven Seminole families are divided is a camp in which 
all the persous but the husbands are members of one gens. The camp 
at Miami is an apparent exception. There Little Tiger, arather impor- 
tant personage, lives with a number of unmarried relatives. A Wolf 
has married one of Little Tiger’s sisters and lives in the camp, as prop- 
erly he should. Lately Tiger himself has married an Otter, but, instead 
of leaving his relatives and going to the camp of his wife’s kindred, 
his wife has taken up her home with his people. 
At the Big Cypress Swamp I tried to discover the comparative rank or 
dignity of the various clans. In reply, I was told by one of the Wind 
clan that they are graded in the following order. At the northernmost 
camp, however, another order appears to have been established. 
Big Cypress camp. Northernmost camp. 
1. The Wind. 1. The Tiger. 
2. The Tiger. 2. The Wind. 
3. The Otter. 3. The Otter. 
4. The Bird. . 4. The Bird. 
5. The Deer. 5. The Bear. 
6. The Snake. 6. The Deer. 
7. The Bear. 7. The Buffalo. 
&. The Wolf. 8. The Snake. 
9. The Alligator. 

10. The Horned Owl. 
This second order was given to me by one of the Bird gens and by 
one who calls himself distinctively a “ Tallahassee ” Indian. The Buffalo 
