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the Picofa of the other group, as his presence would nullify the good 

 effect of the ceremony." It is also reported that one of these 

 moieties, the Tcuka f alalia, was superior to the other (Speck, 1907 a, 

 p. 54; Swanton, 1928 c, p. 195). 



The Creek Nation had a dual division of clans into the Hatha- 

 galgi, "Whites," and the Tcilokogalgi, "People of a different 

 speech." The colors white and red were associated with these re- 

 spectively and they were associated in the same way with peace and 

 war, but in this warlike body, strange to say, the peace clans seem 

 to have stood higher, judging by the fact that the Wind and Bear 

 clans, both White, possessed prerogatives above all others. The 

 towns and subtribes were also divided into two, headed bv Kasihta 

 and Coweta respectively, and these also had to do with war and 

 peace. The great games always occurred between towns on op- 

 posite sides, and the players who took part in practice games with- 

 in the several towns divided along lines determined by the two 

 moieties. In matrimonial affairs, hoAvever, the influence of the dual 

 divisions of towns and clans was quite distinct, for the town moieties 

 had a strong tendency toward endogamy, marriage between op- 

 posing towns being discouraged, while it is commonly reported that 

 the clan moieties were exogamous. However, exceptions to clan 

 exogamy were quite numerous and it will always be doubtful 

 whether it was ever the absolute institution some informants con- 

 tend. Members of the two clan moieties at Tukabahchee used dif- 

 ferent feathers in the feather dance, feathers of the white crane 

 and those of the eagle (Swanton, 1928, pp. 156-165). 



In northern Florida the clans wore grouped into several phratries, 

 but it is not apparent that these were ranged into moieties, nor is 

 there a trace of either moieties or phratries among the Cherokee. 

 It is, indeed, rumored that the 7 clans of the last-mentioned tribe 

 were originally 14 and that they had been reduced to the historic 

 number by combination in twos. But no assertion has ever been 

 made that the original 14 were divided into moieties, and efface- 

 ment of moieties instead of clans in this manner is entirely with- 

 out precedent (Mooney, 1900, pp. 212-213). 



In more recent times, the Yuchi adopted the dual division of 

 clans of the Creeks, but they had an older dual division, into what 

 Speck calls the "Chiefs' Society" and the "Warriors' Society (Speck, 

 1909, pp. 70-78). These suggest in some measure the Choctaw and 

 Chickasaw moiety systems, but differed from them in being per- 

 petuated in the male line. 



Duality among the Natchez and Chitimacha took the form of castes 

 and it has been described. This should not be regarded as a true 

 moiety system. In 1882 John Key, a Tutelo living on Grand River 



