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definitely localized by the Apache and the clan is 
still associated. with that region. Carrizo Creek is 
named in Apache Lokadigai, with reference to the reeds 
which grow in its bed and which are also responsible 
for the Spanish name Carrizo. One of the clans is 
named from this creek Lokadigaihn and its members 
are more numerous in this valley than in other parts of 
the Apache region. Certain political bands are also 
associated in the Apache mind with definite clans. Since 
of each family the mother and children belong to one 
clan and the father to another, there can never be 
localization or division into political groups in a strict 
sense. In the valley of Carrizo Creek the members of 
various other clans are more numerous than are those 
of the one clan which is associated with the creek by 
name. 
The clans of the Navajo number over fifty and of 
the Western Apache over thirty. Among both tribes 
the clans are more or less grouped and the entire group 
usually is exogamous but does not bear a distinctive 
name. 
SocraAL CUSTOMS. 
The young men among the Navajo and Apache in 
former days secured their brides by displaying their 
ability as hunters. The man came to the lodge of his 
chosen maiden with a deer which he placed outside. If 
her family were willing to have him.as a son-in-law, the 
deer was taken and eaten. The young man lived with 
his father-in-law for some time and hunted for the 
support of the family. A strict mother-in-law taboo 
exists among the nomadic Athapascans of the South- 
west. The young man must never meet his mother-in- 
law or any of her sisters or her mother. They are 
never permitted to be in the same room together or 
