“I. The right of electing its sachem or chief. “II. The right of deposing its sachem or chief. “III. The obligation not to marry in the gens. “IV. Mutual rights of inheritance of the property of deceased members. “V. Reciprocal obligations of help, defence, and redress of injuries. “VI. The right of bestowing names upon its members. “VII. The right of adopting strangers into the gens. “VIII. Common religious rites. “IX. A common burial-place. “X. A council of the gens.”[377] Among the Wyandots there is a council in each gens composed of four women. “These four women councillors select a chief of the gens from its male members—that is, from their brothers and sons. This gentile chief is the head of the gentile council. The council of the tribe is composed of the aggregated gentile councils. The tribal council then is composed of one-fifth men and four-fifths women.”[378] This is not the case with other tribes, however. Among the Tlinkits it is the richest who “obtain the highest places,” the selection of the chiefs depending entirely on the amount of property they have; that is, on a property basis. These Amerinds have a better appreciation of property than any others I have ever seen. They seldom haggle, but in selling they state a price and adhere to it. A smaller amount offered is usually treated with scorn. The sign of clan or gens membership was the totem, all members of the same gens having the same totem, and his or her name usually indicating this totem. For example, if we know an Amerind woman’s name to be Spotted Fawn, we place her at once in the deer clan. The deer is the animal that she looks up to as being most intimately connected with her past and her future, and from which her ancestors were descended. This is the clan or gens totem. As mentioned in a previous chapter, there are also two other kinds of totems, those pertaining to sex and those pertaining to the individual alone. Totems are always chosen from a class of organic objects, while a fetich may be anything at all. Thus the totems are deer, frogs, bears, snakes, corn, etc., while a fetich may be a pebble, a piece of glass wrapped in a bit of buckskin together with a feather, or some similar object. The fetich was a talisman, the totem a beneficent attending spirit and a sign of family and origin.