4	Mac-co. Pen-ny-ack
5	Kiche Cumme
6	Pay-shake-is-se-wuck
7	Pe-she-pe-she-wuck
8	Way-me-co-uck
9	Muck-wuck
IO	Me-se-co
ii	A-ha-wuck
12	Muh-wha-wuck
two]       MEMOIRS OF THE SAUK AND FOXES         igi
or                 Bear Potatoe
Great Lake Deer Panther Thunder Bear
Black Bafs "    .              Swan
Wolf
and villages they did not live a sedentary life altogether, for much of the time they devoted to the chase, fishing, and hunting game almost the whole year round. They were acquainted with wild rice, and hunted the buffalo; they did not get into possession of the horse very much earlier than after the Black Hawk War in 1832. . . Their abode was the bark house in warm weather, and the oval flag-reed lodge in winter; the bark house was characteristic of the village. Every gens had one large bark house wherein were celebrated the festivals of the gens. In this lodge hung the sacred bundles of the gens, and here dwelt the priests that watched over their keeping. It is said that some of these lodges were the length of five fires. The ordinary bark dwelling had but a single fire, which was at the center."
"In the days when the tribe was much larger there were numerous gentes. It may be that as many as fourteen gentes are yet in existence. These are: Trout, Sturgeon, Bass, Great Lynx or Water monster, Sea, Fox, Wolf, Bear, Bear-Potato, Elk, Swan, Grouse, Eagle, and Thunder. It seems that at one time there was a more rigid order of rank both socially and politically than at present For example, chiefs came from the Trout and Sturgeon gentes, and war chiefs from the Fox gens; and there were certain relationships of courtesy between one gens and another, as when one acted the role of servants to another, seen especially on the occasion of a gens ceremony."
These were two great social groups: Klshko" and Oshkasha. "A person entered into a group at birth, sometimes the father, sometimes the mother determining the group into which the child was to enter. The division was for emulation in all manner of contests, especially in athletics. The Sauk never developed a soldier society with the same degree of success as did the Foxes, but they did have a buffalo society; it is said that the first was due to contact with the Sioux, and it is reasonable to suppose that the second was due to influence also from the plains. There was a chief and a council. The chiefs came from the Trout and Sturgeon gentes, and the council was an assembly of all the warriors. Politically the chief was nothing more than figurehead, but socially he occupied first place in the tribe. Furthermore, his person was held sacred, and for that reason he was given royal homage." — William Jones, in Handbook Atner. Indians.
The sixth in Forsyth's list of Fox clans is called by Morgan Na-ni-ma-kew-uk (Ancient Society, 170). He also mentions the buffalo clan, Na-nus-sus-so-uk, as among the Sauk and Foxes.— Ed.