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There is no division or alignment of the clans. In the santu dance and in the dance which I saw at Acoma, 1 the hoinawe, the two groups dance from the east and west estufas according to membership in the estufa, 2 and this membership is unrelated to clan membership.

The cacique or kazik* I met two years ago has since died. He was an Antelope clansman, and Johnson, my Acoma interpreter, was insistent that the cacique was always chosen from the Antelope clan and that this clan, i.e., "the brothers and uncles" of the cacique had autocratic functions. 3 According to Johnson, his own father had been kazik* and he was succeeded by an uncle, his father's brother. Now the new cacique is Eagle, according to several Acoma women I met and according to Johnson himself when he began to tell me of the change in office. Later in the talk he said that the new kazik* (Francisco Wachampin) was Antelope (not a close relative of the deceased kazik*), it was his wife who was Eagle. A kazik*' always takes his wife to live in the Antelope clan house appropriated to the kazik*. The contradiction is puzzling and, although I incline to think that Johnson was misstating in order to give prestige to the clan of which he was a child, more data are necessary. The history of the undoubtedly ceremonial position of the Antelope clan (and Badger clan) at Acoma as well as at Laguna and Zufii is still obscure.

The kazik* watches the Sun. Unbroken continence is required of him. He does not have to be a cheani in fact it is likely that he would not be one. He has no assistant or lieutenant. To- gether with the tsatio hocheni or "war captains" he looks after the k'atsina or masked impersonations.

not given. Clans not given in my list are Pinon-Eater, and Ivy (probably ise or Mustard. This plant was once called Ivy to me). Clans given in the above list and not by Bandelier are Oak, Sky, Mustard and, extinct, Red Ant and Lizard. (Final Report, Pt. I, p. 273. Papers, Archaeological Institute of America, Amer. Ser. in.)

Hodge mentions fourteen existing clans and six extinct clans. The extinct clans are Blue Corn, Brown Corn, White Corn, Fire, Buffalo and Ant. Of the clans in my list he omits Mustard and he does not identify Water with Sky. ("Pueblo Indian Clans," pi. vii, American Anthropologist, vol. ix (1896)).

1 See "Notes on Acoma and Laguna," pp. 162-171.

2 This is the Zufii system when the pattern of alternating dance groups is followed.

3 See "The Antelope Clan in Keresan Custom and Myth," Man, vol. xvn (1917). pp. 192-3-

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