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MUSEUM BULLETIN NO. 10. 
This will be brought out more clearly by the following tables, 
based on actual genealogies: 
(F) Thunderbird — 
(F) Bear —Bear (M) 1 
(F) Eagle —Eagle (M) 2 
(F) Wolf —Wolf (M) 3 
(M) Thunderbird— Thunderbird (M) 4 
— Bear (F) 5 
or: 
(F) Thunderbird — 
(M) Bear — Bear (M) 1 
(M) Bear —Eagle (F) 2 
— Thunderbird (F) 3 
All these marriages are permitted. In the first case a 
man marries into his maternal grandmother's maternal grand- 
father’s clan; and in the second a man marries into his paternal 
grandmother’s clan. We will consequently have to consider 
blood relationship as extending only to four, sometimes three, 
generations, and have to regard the statement of blood-relation- 
ship as the tie binding the members of the clan together as purely 
fictitious and secondary. That, nevertheless, this fictitious 
tie called forth the same feeling as that of real relationship, 
there is abundant evidence to show, and that it was of consider- 
able importance in the development of the Winnebago clan- 
complex is borne out by the fact that the clan was called “those- 
who-are-relatives- to-one-another, ’ ' 
THE SOCIO-POLITICAL COMPLEX. 
Clan Functions. 
The association of political functions with definite social 
units is a common phenomenon for most cultures where a 
tendency toward socialization exists. It is strictly comparable 
to the association of ceremonial and religious functions with 
ceremonial units. In this connexion, the difference between 
an association with a group unit and an association with an 
individual, is of fundamental importance. Is the former, for 
instance, merely an extension of the latter ? This only individual 
