SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE NASS RIVER INDIANS. 
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individual names, houses, hunting and fishing territories, and 
numerous other inheritable privileges. On the whole, a clan 
seems to be confined to a single tribe, though there are cases of 
a single clan name being represented in two distinct tribes. 
Thus, the fetspo' u dwrdd clan of both the feetwankci'lk u and 
kct’anwc'l'kc bears the name of though the crests, as 
far as they were obtained, do not correspond at all; the main 
crest of this dan among the fed'Wankei'lk' 1 is the killer- whale, 
among the fcct'anwi'l'kc the moon. In other words, rank and 
privileges can not be safely predicated of either phratry or dan 
(insofar as covered by a name of more than unilocal distri- 
bution), but must always be studied with reference to a partic- 
ular tribe or, what amounts to the same thing, village. 
While each of the four phratries, as we have seen, has its 
characteristic or head crest, it does not at all follow that this 
crest figures as the main crest of each of its clans. Thus, among 
six Nass River clans belonging to the Wolf phratry, only two 
possess the wolf as their main crest (in one of these, moreover, 
this crest has the special name of “wolves moving about”); in 
two others the wolf occurs as one of the crests, but not as the 
main crest, this position being occupied by the “son of black 
bear” and “white grizzly” respectively; in the two other families, 
finally, the wolf is apparently not owned as crest at all, the main 
crest in each of these being the “black-bear prince.” Similar 
conditions prevail with reference to the other phratries. The 
ascription of a single definite main crest to each of the phratries 
must, therefore, not be understood inclusively. However, there 
seems to be no doubt that some connexion is recognized between 
the member of a phratry and his phratric crest or crests, even in 
cases where it is not looked upon as one of the specific crests of 
his clan. Thus, while the feUwd’nd-ftt '' 1 clan of the $ tt'anwt'l'kc 
tribe, the second clan in rank of the Wolf phratry as represented 
in the tribe, does not possess the right to use the wolf as a real 
crest, it nevertheless can show it in a potlatch “for fun,” as it is 
their phratric emblem; the point is that they may not use the 
wolf crest to increase their prestige, as by the giving away of 
property in connexion with it. Chief Derrick went on to say 
that any member of the Wolf phratry could use both wolf and 
