Its ramifications are wide: In some cases it emphasizes kinship by assigning members of the family group to fixed positions about the camp-fire or in the house; this function develops into the placement of family groups in fixed order, as exemplified in the iroquoian long-house and the Siouan camping circle; or it develops into a curiously exaggerated direction-concept culminating in the cult of the Four Quarters and the Here, and this prepares the way for a quinary, decimal, and vigesimal numeration; this last branch sends off another in which the cult of the Six Quarters and the Here arises to prepare the way for the mystical numbers 7, 13, and 7x7, whose vestiges come down to civilization; both the four-quarter and the six-quarter associations are sometimes bound up with colors; and there are numberless other ramifications.
"The Siouan Indians"
W. J. McGee
An iroquoian town situated, in 1535, on Montreal Island.
"The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History"
Various
An iroquoian tribe, occupying the north shore of Lake Erie.
"The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History"
Various