84 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



NAME REGULATIONS. 



It has been previously explained that there is a body of 

 names, the exclusive property of each gens. Once a year 

 at the green-corn festival, the council women of the gens 

 select the names for the children born during the previous 

 year, and the chief of the gens proclaims these names at the 

 festival. No person may change his name, but every per- 

 son, man or woman, by honorable or dishonorable conduct, 

 or by remarkable circumstance, may win a second name 

 commemorative of deed or circumstance, which is a kind of 

 title. 



REGULATIONS OF PERSONAL ADORNMENT. 



Each clan has a distinctive method of painting the face, 

 a distinctive chaplet to be worn by the gentile chief and 

 council women when they are inaugurated, and subse- 

 quently at festival occasions, and distinctive ornaments for 

 all its members, to be used at festivals and religious cere- 

 monies. 



REGULATIONS OF ORDER IN ENCAMPMENT AND MIGRATIONS. 



The camp of the tribe is in an open circle or horse-shoe, 

 and the gentes camp in following order, beginning on the 

 left and going around to the right : 



Deer, Bear, Highland Turtle (striped), Highland Turtle 

 (black), Mud Turtle, Smooth Large Turtle, Hawk, Beaver, 

 Wolf, Sea Snake, Porcupine. 



The order in which the households camp in the gentile 

 group is regulated by the gentile councillors and adjusted 

 from time to time in such a manner that the oldest family is 

 placed on the left, and the youngest on the right. In mi- 

 grations and expeditions the order of travel follows the 

 analogy of encampment. 



PROPERTY RIGHTS. 



Within the area claimed by the tribe each gens occupies 

 a smaller tract for the purpose of cultivation. The right of 



