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A Study of Siouan Cults

Note 304 — Chapter VII · CONCLUDING REMARKS.

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As it was customary for gentes of the same phratry to exchange personal names, a (Kansa) Deer name, for instance, being given to a (Kansa) Buffalo man, and vice versa, the author thinks that an exchange of symbolic colors might be expected. Compare what Matthews tells about the exchange of white and black among the Navajo, in § 380.

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