SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF WINNEBAGO INDIANS, 
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division,” it pertains to him to place a corpse in the earth. 
This, however, seems to be a doubtful function, for earth burial 
seems in olden times to have been characteristic only of the 
mqnegi division, the waygeregi clans having had scaffold burial. 
In addition, the burial relation was one of the many reciprocal 
duties of the “friend-clan,” and if it was ever postulated of the 
waygeregi and mqnegi , this was likely due to the fact that the 
“friendship” relation seems also to have existed between two clans 
belonging to the two different divisions. According to one myth, 
however, the four clans of the waygeregi paired off as “friends” 
with four clans of the mqnegi. This would then be practically 
equivalent to saying that the mqnegi buried the waygeregi. 
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Figure 1. A, Mpyegi side; B, Waygeregi side. 
1, Lodge of Bear clan; 2, Lodge of Thunderbird clan; 
3, Lodge of Warrior clan; 4, Lodge of Buffalo clan. 
Thus far we have spoken only of the socio-political functions. 
The two divisions, however, play a part in a number of social 
and ceremonial connexions: first, in the organization of the 
village; second, in the arrangement of the clans while on the war- 
path; third, as the basis of organization at the “chief” feast; and 
lastly, as the basis of organization of the ceremonial lacrosse game. 
