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When a gens assembles in its own circle, the servants are sta- 

 tioned on each side of the entrance, and the rest of the circle is 

 divided between the sub-gentes. 



Sub-gentes. — Each gens is composed of four sub-gentes, some of 

 which in turn are divided into four sections ; and these sections, 

 in some cases, are divided into sub-sections. 



The Elk sub-gentes are: 1. Elk ; 2. Keepers of the war tent; 

 3. Thunder ; and 4. One whose name is unknown to me. The 

 Black-shoulder sub-gentes are : 1. Keepers of the Pipe (Eagle 

 people,) or they who eat no red corn ; 2. They who touch no char- 

 coal ; 3. They who eat no buffalo tongues, and touch not a buffalo 

 head ; and 4. The Criers or Heralds. 



The Foremost sub-gentes are : 1. They who eat not the sacred 

 buffalo meat ; 2. Real Foremost, they who eat no buffalo tongues ; 

 3. Servants of the Sacred Tents ; and 4. They who touch not 

 " Blue skins." 



The Dhatada sub-gentes are : 1. Bear ; 2. Bird ; 8. Eagle ; 4. 

 Turtle. 



Two of the Kansas sub-gentes are : Keepers of the Pipe, and 

 the Wind people. 



The Earth-lodge sub-gentes are: 1. Prairie-wolf and Wolf; 2. 

 Keepers of the sacred stone ; 3. Keepers of the pipe ; and 4. They 

 who touch not the white swan, (this last is not a taboo.) 



Two of the Buffalo-tail sub-gentes are : 1. Keepers of the Pipe, 

 or they who touch not the lowest rib of a buffalo ; 2. Keepers 

 of the sweet medicine, or they who touch not a buffalo calf. 



The Deer-head sub-gentes are : 1. Keepers of the Pipe (Eagle 

 and Thunder people), or they who touch not charcoal, blue clay, 

 and the skin of a wild-cat ; 2. They who touch not charcoal, and 

 the fat of a deer, and who can not wear deer-skin moccasins ; 3. 

 Deer ; and 4. Thunder people. 



The names of the four Red-dung sub-gentes are unknown to me, 

 though I have obtained the names of their chiefs. 



The Ishtasanda sub-gentes are: 1. Keepers of the claws of the 

 wild-cat (Thunder people) ; 2. Real Ishtasanda or Reptile people ; 

 3. Keepers of the clam shell or Thunder people ; 4. Keepers of 

 the sacred pipe. 



Origin of the sub-gentes. — The Eagle people of the Dhatada 



