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in the cultivation of the soil. Each gens has the right to 

 the service of all its male members in avenging wrongs, 

 and the tribe has the right to the service of all its male 

 members in time of war. 



RIGHTS OF RELIGION. 



Each phratry has the right to certain religious ceremonies 

 and the preparation of certain medicines. 



Each gens has the exclusive right to worship its tutelar 

 god, and each individual has the exclusive right to the pos- 

 session and use of a particular amulet. 



CRIMES. 



The violations of rights are crimes. Some of the crimes 

 recognized by the Wyandots are as follows : 



1. Adultery. 4. Murder. 



2. Theft. 5. Treason. 



3. Maiming. 6. Witchcraft. 



A maiden guilty of fornication may be punished by her 

 mother or female guardian, but if the crime is flagrant and 

 repeated, so as to become a matter of general gossip, and the 

 mother fails to correct it, the matter may be taken up by the 

 council women of the gens. 



A woman guilty of adultery, for the first offense is pun- 

 ished by having her hair cropped ; for repeated offenses her 

 left ear is cut off. 



THEFT. 



The punishment for theft is two-fold restitution. When 

 the prosecutor and prosecuted belong to the same gens, the 

 trial is before the council of the gens, and from it there is 

 no appeal. If the parties involved are of different gentes, 

 the prosecutor, through the head of his household, lays the 

 matter before the counsel of his own gens ; by it the matter 

 is laid before the gentile council of the accused in a formal 

 manner. Thereupon it becomes the duty of the council of 

 the accused to investigate the facts for themselves, and to 



