" But the Biloxi has distinct terms (and groups)
for father's elder sister, father's younger sister, father's elder
brother, father's younger brother, and so on for the mother's elder and
younger brothers and sisters. The Biloxi distinguishes between an elder
sister's son and the son of a younger sister, and so between the daughter
of an elder sister and a younger sister's daughter. A Biloxi man may not
marry his wife's brother's daughter, nor his wife's father's sister,
differing in this respect from a Dakota, an Omaha, a Ponka, etc; but he
can marry his deceased wife's sister. A Biloxi woman may marry the brother
of her deceased husband. Judging from the analogy furnished by the Kansa
tribe it was very probably the rule before the advent of the white race
that a Biloxi man could not marry a woman of his own clan.
THE TUTELO
It is impossible to learn whether the Tutelo ever camped in a circle. The
author obtained the following clan names (descent being in the female
line) from John Key, an Indian, on Grand River reservation, Ontario,
Canada, in September, 1882: On "one side of the fire" were the Bear and
Deer clans, the Wolf and Turtle being on the other side.
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