[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Their chiefs were poor and without revenue, yet the treasury of the nation was never exhausted. A more perfect democracy will never exist among the nations of the earth, and in this respect it was distinguished from the government of the Iroquois, the latter more nearly resembling a republic from the greater number of tribes represented in national councils, but in other respects scarcely presenting a single contrasting feature. The names given to the Lenape tribes were from their totems. Each Indian nation was not only divided into tribes and chief taincies or family clans, but had peculiar totemic classifications. Totems were rude but distinct devices or family symbols, denot ing original consanguinity, and were universally respected. They were painted upon the person of the Indian, and again on the gable end of his cabin, " some in black, others in red." The wandering savage appealed to his totem, and was entitled to the hospitality of the wigwam which bore the corresponding em blem. They had other and various uses, but the most important was the representation which they made of the tribe or family to which they belonged or were made the emblems. The Iroquois had nine, forming two divisions, one of four tribes and the other of five. Of the first division the emblems were the Tortoise, the Wolf, the Bear, and the Beaver. The second division, and subordinate to the first, were the Deer, the Potatoe, the Great Plover, the Little Plover, and the Eagle.