249).

This duplication of the number probably arose from assigning the first four men four women as wives.

The division into clans or totems which prevails in most northern tribes rests theoretically on descent from different ancestors.

The Shawnees and Natchez were divided into four such clans, the Choctaws, Navajos, and Iroquois into eight, thus proving that in those tribes also the myth I have been discussing was recognized.
[85-1] Mandans in Catlin, _Letts.

and Notes_, i.p.