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156 156, , KANSAS TOTEM. ,,, ' ' ' ', more Cooper states that Unsus, the last of ihe Mohe- cans, had a turtle tattooed on his breast. That was not his tribal Totem, but his individual one, signifying him to be a chief by hereditary right. The great novelist does not state what the tribal totem was. "The Clan Totem" is reverenced by the body of men and women who call themselves by the name of the totem, believing themselves to be of one blood, de- scendants of the common ancestor. In its social as- pect, it witnesses the relation of the clansmen to each other and how they are bound to give assistance in time of distress." After careful research the location of the totem of various tribes andpeoplc cannot be here given; for although the authorities jgive numerous^ people as being addicted to Totemism,yet they do not state on what part of the body the emblem is located, i or whether on one or different parts of the body accord- 1 ing to the custom of the numerous people using them. | It may be thought that only the American Indians used this; bat Australia does so almost universally, i as well a 3 Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, parts of: Africa, India and numerous places. So it must be a, kind of mania; for do not sea-faring men invariably, have their arms or chests tattooed with an anchor or. other emblem? (The German government has re-' cently forbidden the practice in its navy, it having been demonstrated that it was unhealthy). Although, the books throw no light upon the totem used by the Kansas people, yet it is stated that the Kaws used among "their different branches "Black Eagle,' "H^te Eagle," "Deer and Deer Tail." , The Kaiisas Indians were designated Kaws over a hundred years