IT)!) IMJIANS OF THE SOrTHWEsT. 



side of tlio warp strands. The designs are mostly 

 g;eonietrical. similar to those found in basket work, 

 but reahstic ones are found in which circular saws, 

 bows and ariows. and butterflies are represented. 



Social Orgaxizatiox. 



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 and seem to serve no other purpose 

 than that of regulating marriage. The explanation 

 of the names, which are geographical ones, is that in 

 mythical times a band camped for a thne at a place 

 where a cottonwood tree stood b}^ a stream or where 

 some accident befell them and from this tree or cir- 

 cumstance, 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 is probably not the case for the various clans are 

 now completeh' scattered over the country occupied 

 by these two peoples. An exogamous group can hardly 

 remain a local or political one since the husband in 

 each family must belong to a clan different from that 

 of the wife. 



Dr. Washington ]\Iatthews by using several infor- 

 mants found fifty-one clans among the Xa\ajo. Most 

 individuals are well acquainted with the prominent 

 ones. In several cases Matthews found a groujiing of 



