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MUSEUM BULLETIN NO. 10. 
According to the majority of the older people, when the old 
social organization was still intact, each village was divided 
into two halves by an imaginary line running due northwest by 
southeast, th ewaijgeregi clans dwelling in one half, with the Chief’s 
lodge in the south, and the mqnegi clans dwelling in the other 
half, with the Bear or Soldier lodge in the north (Figure 1). 
Although this arrangement has now become almost legendary, 
it was corroborated by many of the older people. To what 
extent every village was organized on this basis, it is impossible 
to tell. When this question was directly put to individuals, 
the answer was always in the affirmative. Quite a number of 
old individuals, however, denied vigorously that such had 
ever been the organization of the village, and claimed, instead, 
that the lodges of the Chief and the Soldier (Bear) clan were in 
the centre of the village (Figure 2). 
In looking over the clan affiliations of the informants, w*e 
noticed, however, that arrangement 1 was always given by 
members of the bird clans, and arrangement 2 by members of 
the Bear clan and generally also by others on the mqnegi side. 
This fact, of course, makes the decision as to the relationship 
