166 INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST. 
belts, and moccasins; or they are woven in a belt loom 
having a warp and woof of cotton thread. The beads 
are strung on the woof by means of two needles which 
pass a double thread through the beads and on either 
side of the warp strands. The designs are mostly geo- 
metrical, similar to those found in basket work, but 
realistic ones are found in which circular saws, bows and 
arrows, and butterflies are represented. 
The Eastern Apache paint designs on rawhide bags 
as do the Plains Indians. They have the envelope type 
of receptacle known as the parfleche. The Western 
Apache use instead saddlebags decorated with cut 
designs and streamers. This art no doubt is of Spanish 
origin, taken over with the horse and saddle. 
SocriAL ORGANIZATION. 
The Eastern Apache, as far as can be discovered, 
have no clans, or other divisions regulating marriage. 
The Western Apache and the Navajo have clans which 
are exogamous, regulating social duties and relations 
and especially marriage. The explanation of the 
names, which are geographical ones, is that in mythical 
times a band camped for a time at a place where a 
cottonwood tree stood by a stream or where some 
accident befell them and from this tree or circumstance, 
a name was given the clan. Were one to trust to ~ 
these myths he would conclude that the clans represent 
former geographical or political groups. This does not 
appear to be true for the Navajo. The clans of the 
White Mountain Apache do seem to be somewhat 
localized. Certain clans have numerous members resid- 
ing in the western portion of the Apache territory and 
but few in the eastern region. The region which in the 
myth gives the name to the clan is in some instances 
