ept among the Chiricahua, where, it is said, descent is
traced through the father.

[Illustration: _Nalin Lage_ - Apache]

_Nalin Lage_ - Apache

_From Copyright Photograph 1906 by E.S. Curtis_

_Coyotero Clans_

BAND I

1. Tse Chin (Red Rocks).
2. Glesh Chin (Red Clay).
3. Des Kain (Cottonwood People).
4. Nu{~COMBINING BREVE~}gwu Dilhkizn (Between Two Mountains).
5. Des Lantin (Where the Cottonwoods Meet).
6. Kai Hin Chin (Through the Willows).
7. Kestechi Nadakin (Ford between Sycamores).

BAND II

1. Kluqa Di Kain (Many-reeds People).
2. Il Chen Tian (Long Row of Pines).
3. Chenche Chichil Kain (Clump-of-oaks People).
4. Tzilh Adin (By the Mountain).
5. Yakui Kain (White-hill People).

BAND III

1. Ia On Ye (In Black Brush).
2. Ta Kain (Sand People).
3. Tentolzu{~COMBINING BREVE~}ga (Juts into the Water).
4. Dosh To An (Many Flies).
5. Tse Des Kain (White-rock People).
6. Tse Teu{~COMBINING BREVE~}n (Rocks in the River).
7. Tu Dilhki{~COMBINING BREVE~}h Shan (By the Black Water).
8. Ke Shin Tian (Long Row of Sycamores).

BAND IV

1. Nde Nde{~COMBINING BREVE~}zn (Tall People).

BAND V

1. Nadotz Ozn (By Sharp Mountains).
2. Pis A Hon (Bank Caved In).

_Arivaipa Clans_

1. Glesh Chin (Red Clay).
2. Des Zepu{~COMBINING BREVE~}n (Big Gray Cottonwoods).
3. Tsez Zhune{~COMBINING BREVE~} (By the Little Black Rocks).
4. Tse Des Kain (White-rock People).

_Chiricahua Clans_

1. Aiahan (People of the East).
2. Nde Ndai (Apache Half Mexican).
3. Cho Kune{~COMBINING BREVE~} (Ridge on the Mountain-side).
4. Chan Han (Red People).

MARRIAGE--Strictly speaking, barter for women at an agreed price was never
the custom among the Apache,--so the older of the present generation
contend,--personal choice on the part of the girl having always to be
considered. Nevertheless, payment for the bride is always made to her
parents in the form of grain, money, horses, saddles, blankets, or cattle.
The bride's consent is necessary, custom requiring the young man to prove
his moral strength, and ability to support a wife and himself, by erecting
a neat house and permitting the girl of his choice to occupy it with him
for four nights without being molested or having her presence observed. By
preparing his breakfast the morning following the fourth night the girl