SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF WINNEBAGO INDIANS. 
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origin of the tribe is due to the literary-legendary tendency 
towards uniformity, is, on the whole, quite likely. This seems 
illustrated by the fact that the Warrior and Buffalo clans in some 
of the versions of their clan myths claim specific places, while 
others claim Green bay as their ancestral home. Green bay 
must, therefore, be considered as one of probably many local 
associations, connected with a prominent clan, which came 
to be accepted in the course of time by most of the others. 
Arrangement of Clans in Village. 
As in Figure 1, all the clans of the warjgeregi division except 
the Thunderbird and Warrior, could occupy any position in the 
half-circle, and the same was true of those of the mq.negi division 
except the Bear clan. The Buffalo clan seems to have been grouped 
on the waygeregi side. However, in both divisions the members 
of each clan had to be grouped together, a segregation that was 
further emphasized by the erection near each clan of an earthen 
effigy of the clan animal. According to all informants, each 
village was inhabited by members of various clans; in no case 
did a village merely include members of the same clan, as seems 
to have been the case among the Menomini. Among the latter, 
village exogamy probably existed, while no trace of this is found 
among the Winnebago. This clan segregation in every Winne- 
bago village became, after a while, practically identical with 
blood relationship, although the close relationship existing 
between members of the same clan may also partially represent 
the persistence of a local group consciousness. 
This distribution of the same clan over many villages would, 
indeed, seem to militate against the local group origin of the clans, 
but it must be remembered that the clan organization was of 
considerable age and there is no reason to suppose that the 
local groups could have had any influence now discernible. 
The village arrangement must, of course, not be pushed too 
hard, for we should expect a tendency on the part of informants 
whose knowledge was entirely hearsay, to cast their information 
in a more or less schematic mould. The old village sites seem 
to indicate that the bird effigy was dominant in some places and 
