CHAPTER VL 



POLITICAL HEADS CHIEFS, KIXG3, ETC. 



471. Of the three components of the tri-une political struc 

 ture traceable at the outset, we have now to follow the develop 

 ment of the first. Already in the last two chapters something 

 has been said, and more has been implied, respecting that 

 most important differentiation which results in the establish 

 ment of a headship. What was there indicated under its 

 general aspects has here to be elaborated under its special 

 aspects. 



&quot; When Pdnk asked the Mcobarians who among them was 

 the chief, they replied laughing, how could he believe that 

 one could have power against so many ?&quot; I quote this as a 

 reminder that there is, at first, resistance to the assumption 

 of supremacy by one member of a group resistance which, 

 though in some types of men small, is in most considerable, 

 and in a few very great. To instances already given of tribes 

 practically chief less may be added, from America, the Haidahs, 

 among whom &quot; the people seemed all equal ;&quot; the Californian 

 tribes, among whom &quot; each individual does as he likes ;&quot; the 

 Navajos, among whom &quot;each is sovereign in his own right as 

 a warrior;&quot; and from Asia the Angamies, who &quot;have no 

 recognized head or chief, although they elect a spokesman, 

 who, to all intents and purposes, is powerless and irrespon 

 sible.&quot; 



Such small subordination as rude groups show, occurs only 



