Haircuts of young Native American males of the Osage and Omaha nations were indications of the plant or animal clan with which they were associated. For example, the first haircut from the left on the top row was analogous to the head and tail of an elk, while the second from the right on the bottom row was emblematic of the teeth of a reptile. See F. La Flesche, “The Osage Child-Naming Rite” in 43rd Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 1925-1926 (Washington, D.C., 1928).