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town, while their corn fields are at Pescado, and the wheat is raised 

 at Mutria. The men plant and cultivate the crops and the women 

 gather, garner, and prepare the grain for use. 



The, women receive more attention here than is usual among 

 Indians.* 



The clan organization is for a triple purpose : to determine the 

 line of marriage, for social amusement, and for religious observ- 

 ances. Descent is in the female line. Monogamy exists. Divorces 

 are readily obtained, and are unattended by reproach, but are by 

 no means common. 



In order to be a member of the religious order — the Priests of 

 the Bow — it is necessary to secure a scalp and undergo a number of 

 ordeals. The election of a person into this order is confirmed by 

 a great feast. All persons charged with murder are tried by this 

 order. The accused conducts his own case, and a member is 

 appointed to manage the prosecution. The decision is reached in 

 secret council and the verdict made known afterwards. If guilty 

 the criminal is executed privately. 



Property is exclusively individual, and can be disposed of by the 

 owner without consulting any one. Children may own property — 

 even land. The property of a man dying intestate descends to his 

 own children ; but at any time prior to his death he may name his 

 heirs. Seven caciques and one priestess constitute the supreme 

 ecclesiastical tribunal, to whom all disputes and doubted points in 

 religious or ceremonial matters are referred. A governor is the 

 chief civil authority ; he decides all minor questions himself, and 

 only summons a council when the importance of the case demands 

 it. In council no formal vote is taken ; each person so expresses 

 his opinion that the will of the majority is easily made known. 

 Women have no voice in the councils. 



Prof. Mason inquired whether differences of social standing 

 regulated the occupancy of the Pueblo houses. Prof. Gore said 

 that this did not seem to be the case. The Priest of the Sun lives 



