On Primitive Institutions
On Primitive Institutions
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If any individual in the group of brothers exhibits superior ability the clan or some other constituted authority takes him out of his kinship rank into a higher rank. Thus his kinship name is changed ; younger brother becomes elder brother, and elder brother becomes younger brother by a legal fiction ; or the son may become the legal father and the father the legal son.
A promotion in kinship is always attended with much tribal ceremony. Among the Iroquoian tribes it is called putting a "spike... on the horns." In some tribes it is called, " adding a feather to the bonnet," in others it is adding a "stripe to the war paint." There is often a preliminary course of instruction Digitized by VjOOQIC for the ceremony which is performed by the priest. Important promotions may be revoked and a man who becomes unworthy in his oflSce may have his " horns '* knocked off or his " feath- ers" plucked out or his "paint" washed away. In all such cases he falls back to his natural kinship name and state.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
If any individual in the group of brothers exhibits superior ability the clan or some other constituted authority takes him out of his kinship rank into a higher rank. Thus his kinship name is changed ; younger brother becomes elder brother, and elder brother becomes younger brother by a legal fiction ; or the son may become the legal father and the father the legal son.
A promotion in kinship is always attended with much tribal ceremony. Among the Iroquoian tribes it is called putting a "spike... on the horns." In some tribes it is called, " adding a feather to the bonnet," in others it is adding a "stripe to the war paint." There is often a preliminary course of instruction Digitized by VjOOQIC for the ceremony which is performed by the priest. Important promotions may be revoked and a man who becomes unworthy in his oflSce may have his " horns '* knocked off or his " feath- ers" plucked out or his "paint" washed away. In all such cases he falls back to his natural kinship name and state.
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