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names given these phratries are the names of tlie rhms 

 whieh are dominant in them. 



In the Keresan villages of the Rio Grande region the 

 children belong to tlie clan of the mother. This has 

 been established for Cochiti by a clan and indi\'idual 

 census made by Prof. Starr. It seems among some of 

 the Tewa villages the children belong to the clan of the 

 father, however little attention is now believed to be 

 paid to the clans even in the matter of marriage since 

 it is difficult to arrange proper marriages with the clans: 

 so much reduced in number and size of membership. 

 The cacique still adheres to what appears to have been 

 the former general custom of addressing each individual 

 by his name followed by the name of his clan. 



Among the Hopi the children are of the mother's 

 clan and the clans are exogamous. At Zuni, while a 

 child is of his mother's clan, he is spoken of as the 

 ''child" of the clan of his father and there are certain 

 duties which are performed not by a member of a clan 

 but by a ''child" of a clan. 



It has been conjectured that in earlier times each 

 clan occupied a definite section of the communal 

 dwelling or even a separate building; that the fields of 

 a clan were in a continuous tract ; and that the men of 

 each clan had a separate kiva which served as a com- 

 mon sleeping place and a clubroom. Castaneda, in- 

 deed, remarks that the estufas are the property of the 

 men, but the houses the property of the women. Plans 

 have been made of a number of the villages showing 

 the clan relationship of those occupying adjoining 



