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those in the neighborhood were carried to a mound on some appointed 

 occasion and buried. The woman was severely punished in cases of 

 adultery, and a class of prostitutes existed formed in part from these. 

 The war titles were usually of a particular pattern ending in the word 

 "killer." Strict observance of mourning ceremonies was imposed 

 upon women. 



The Chickasaw language varied little from that of the Choctaw, but 

 their physical type is reported to have become different owing to the 

 captives adopted into the tribe, and many of their customs approached 

 those of the Creeks. Their winter houses, private and ceremonial, 

 were circular like those of the Choctaw. They roached their head 

 hair like the Creeks, wound copper wire in their ears in the same 

 manner, and used nose ornaments. They were addicted to frontal 

 head deformation like the Choctaw, and they made the same kind of 

 wooden stools. Leadership seems to have depended partly on birth 

 but also partly on accomplishment. Moieties were well developed 

 and a caste system seems to have been in process of developing. 

 Their fundamental units were local groups like those of the Choctaw 

 but they had totemic clans, probably adopted from the Creeks. In 

 cases of adultery they punished only the woman, but their burials 

 were under the house floors, as in the case of the Creeks. Personal 

 war names were after the Choctaw pattern. In other words, there is 

 little one can detect that is not related to something among the 

 Creeks or Choctaw. 



The Cherokee differed somewhat in physical type and fundamentally 

 in language from the tribes just considered. The private and town 

 winter houses were circular, the summer houses quadrangular. They 

 shaved their heads like the Creeks and many of them wound copper 

 wire in their ears after the same fashion. They also wore nose orna- 

 ments. There were seven totemic clans and a seven system permeated 

 their ceremonialism. They buried their dead in the earth, and some- 

 times under stone piles. Stories of tailed men were recorded among 

 them by Mooney. Dreams were noted with especial care and lustra- 

 tions were constantly employed. 



The Yuchi are observed to differ somewhat in physical type from the 

 Creeks among whom they live, but most of their customs are now the 

 same. In early times they roached their heads like the Creeks and the 

 Cherokee. Their social system was similar to that of the Creeks except 

 that they had a dichotomous division into two societies, chiefs and 

 warriors, membership in which was transmitted through the male line. 



The Natchez were one of the tribes which practiced temporal head 

 deformation. They depended upon their crops much more than most 

 other tribes except the Choctaw. They took the names of their months 

 largely from those of food plants or food animals, and constructed a 

 peculiar square type of house. Part roached their hair and part let 



