Creft^ ia crête ou ie cimier qu'ils portent sur la tèlc

commonly some animal as a bear, wolf^ deer^etc.^ and may be compared on the one hand to a crest, and on the other to a surname. The totem appears to be held as proof of descent from a comiAon ancestor, and therefore the prohibition from marriage of two persons of the same totem must act as a bar on the side the totem descends on, whieh is generally, if not always, on the female side. Sueh a prohibition is often mentioned by writers on the north American Indians. Morgan's account of the Iroquois rules is particularly remarkable. The father and child can never be of the same clan, descent going in ail cases by the female Une. Each nation had eight tribes in two sets or four each.