In this light the tribe looks more like a coalition of clans, whose mutual interdependence was structured by important rites parceled out among its participants. Each clan (and subclan) exercised exclusive control over its rites and bundles. The only rites not controlled by individual clans were under the control of sodalities (such as the Shell Society) and were part of the He’dewachi ceremony. Unity was created by interweaving complementary rights and interests. The order of the clan within the circle became a cosmologically ordained way of maintaining
