Ancient law 52, 53

The patriarchal family not primitive 53

"Mother-right" 54

Primitive marriage 55

The system of reckoning kinship through females only 56

Original reason for the system 57

The primeval human horde 58, 59

Earliest family-group; the clan 60

"Exogamy" 60

Phratry and tribe 61

Effect of pastoral life upon property and upon the
family 61-63

The exogamous clan in ancient America 64

Intimate connection of aboriginal architecture with
social life 65

The long houses of the Iroquois 66, 67

Summary divorce 68

Hospitality 68

Structure of the clan 69, 70

Origin and structure of the phratry 70, 71

Structure of the tribe 72

Cross-relationships between clans and tribes; the Iroquois
Confederacy 72-74

Structure of the confederacy 75, 76

The "Long House" 76

Symmetrical development of institutions in ancient
America 77, 78

Circular houses of the Mandans 79-81

The Indians of the pueblos, in the middle status of
barbarism 82, 83

Horticulture with irrigation, and architecture with
adobe 83, 84

Possible origin of adobe architecture 84, 85

Mr. Cushing's sojourn at Zuni 86

Typical structure of the pueblo 86-88

Pueblo society