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MUSEUM BULLETIN NO. 19. 
His father was head chief of the feispo'^dwc'da phratry of the 
fectwankcc'lk u tribe. He is also known as h'c'mc, a nickname 
going back to his child name. Despite his age, Chief Derrick 
has quite a good command of English, and this, combined with 
his great intelligence and evident knowledge of aboriginal social 
conditions among his people, made it possible to obtain a larger 
amount of material in a short time than is perhaps ordinarily 
feasible. He is responsible for practically all the data contained 
in this paper. He was assisted by the interpreter, Mr. Woods, 
only part of the time. 
(2.) Chief W. J. Lincoln, living at the village of Kincolith 
(femyo'l'x). He is about 40 years of age and is the youngest 
chief of the £ tixate' n tribe. His Indian name is qada$€' ,e oc t 
one of the noble names of the la$lo m 'kct ' clan, to which Chief 
Lincoln belongs. 
(3.) Chief A. N. Calder, living at the village of Greenville 
{laxqal(sa'p). He is about 46 years of age and is the head 
chief of the kitgige-'nix tribe. His Indian name is ’ nagwa’o ' n 
“long hand,” one of the noble names of the lax%tbo mf or Wolf 
phratry, to which Chief Calder belongs. 
(4.) Mr. R. S. Woods, living at Kincolith. He is about 
22 years of age and belongs to the noble class of the %Uxate' n 
tribe. His Indian name is ncxdjo"nt\ one of the noble names of 
the laxsgv'k' or Eagle phratry, to which Mr. Woods belongs. 
Mr. Woods is only part Indian, his mother having been half- 
breed and his father white. He speaks perfect English and proved 
useful as interpreter. 
I may say that the data here presented were obtained with- 
out any reference whatever to the material on Nass River 
social organization that Boas gives in his account of the tribe 
(Report of the 65th meeting of the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science, 1895, pp. 569-583). Correspondences 
between his and my own data have, therefore, all the force of 
mutually corroborative evidence. 
