ABSTRACT
A close analogue would be to describe a factory by naming the jobs and positions in it, the chain of command among these social slots, and by noting how the factory recruits and retires its manpower. Each Fox clan owned one or more sacred packs, bundles of sacred items. These sacred items represented salient events in Fox history, remote and not so remote; for example, the skin of an animal or bird, a Union Jack, a weapon. The clan that owned the pack began in the morning to bring quantities of meat obtained at Tama stores, and varicolored Indian corn grown in Fox gardens; men tended the cooking in large cast iron pots over open fires. Sol Tax had shown that to calculate how one man was related to another, the Fox made discriminations different from those we know. Human kinship systems are sets of such classifications of individuals variously connected to each other by genealogy and marriage.
