586 REPORT—1890. 
The chief of the sept, on assuming his position, must take the 
appropriate name according to the sept to which he may belong; but in 
course of time, when he gives a great ‘potlatch,’ he is allowed to 
assume another name. As soon as the chief's name has thus become 
Fria. 13.—Upright in house of the Ts’éca’ath gens. 
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free, another man of the same sept will take it up. However, no one 
who does not belong to the chief’s family is allowed to assume a chief’s 
name. Thus it happens that any member of the chief’s family may, ai 
the time of the chief’s demise, have the name of the chief of the sept. 
