98 INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST. 



in Australia, among the liociuois, and along the North- 

 west Coast of North America. In many communities 

 every bit as primitive, no such things exist. There are 

 no clans and of course, no clan religion. 



In the Southwest, among the Pueblos, we do have 

 clans, well organized and prominent. Although four 

 totally different languages are spoken the names of 

 these clans have the same meanings and are always 

 recognized by the Indians as equivalent or identical. 

 In the smaller pueblos many of the clans appear to have 

 become extinct. 



The names of the clans of the Rio Grande pueblos 

 are rather evenly distributed among the natural orders. 

 There is probably some cause for this arrangement but 

 what it is it may be impossible to discover at this late 

 day. In the Hst given below, which is practically that 

 of Mr. Hodge, only those found in several villages are 

 included. They are: sun, cloud, sky, moon, star, 

 earth, water, fire, turquoise, white bead, coral bead, 

 salt, stone, corn, calabash, oak, cottonwood, tobacco, 

 grass, pine, firewood, arrow, eagle, turkey, parrot, 

 roadrunner, crow, hawk, bear, panther, deer, antelope, 

 buffalo, badger, coyote, gopher, marten, rattlesnake, 

 lizard, frog, and ant. Among the Tewa villages the 

 clans are assignable to one or the other of two major 

 divisions or phratries, the winter and the summer 

 people. The Hopi clans, according to Dr. Fewkes, are 

 grouped in the following phratries: horn-flute, water 

 house, snake, reed, wood, cottontail rabbit, earth, bear, 

 kachina, tansy mustard, tobacco, and badger. The 



