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Show ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XLI LOCALIZATION OF TUSAYAN CLANS Just as Dr Fewkes found it necessary to define the Tusayan clans with considerable fulness in order to explain the migrations, so Mr MindelefF found it needful to set forth the migrations of the tribe as a basis for the description of certain customs connected with the consanguineal organization characteristic of primitive culture. The description is based on the observations of the late A. M. Stephen, in 1883, supplemented by those of Mr MindelefF, in 1888; and the account is complemented in a useful way by the Fewkes records of 1899. Accordingly the observations of the three students at intervals covering nearly two decades combine in mutual corroboration, and at " the same time serve to indicate the trend and rate of social change in Tusayan under the influences of modern contact. The chief value of Mr Mindeleff ' s paper lies in its demonstration of the persistence of clans from new data. It has long been recognized that in tribal society, comprising savagery and barbarism, the clan, or gens, is the dominant social institution, the very foundation of society; it is accordingly quite in keeping with current knowledge to find that in the mutations of migratory life the clan outlasts the tribe, just as it outlives the individual and the family; yet it is of no small interest to find that even in the settled life of the pueblos the clan bonds vie in strength with those of stone and adobe, and shape, more frequently than they are shaped by, the building of cities. Accordingly the clan quarters of Tusayan fall into line with the features of " The Ancient City," as brought out by Fustel de Coulanges, and afford parallels with certain features of European and Asian towns developed in connection with guilds; yet special interest attaches to the Tusayan clan quarters by reason of the primitiveness and simplicity of the relation between social law and inchoate municipal regulation. MOUNDS IN NORTHERN HONDURAS Accidents of settlement early in the century gave rise to the idea of a distinctive " mound region" in the Mississippi valley, |
