phratry

• The Piba phratry is likewise said to have come to Walpi comparatively late in the history of the village, which fact points the same way Undoubtedly Awatobi received additions to its population from the south when the pueblos on the Little Colorado were abandoned, and there are obscure legends which support that belief; but the largest numbers were recruited from the pueblos in the eastern section of the country. —  Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
• From good evidence, I suspect that the arrival of this phratry was comparatively late in Tusayan history, and it is possible that Sikyatki was destroyed before their advent, for in all the legends which I have been able to gather no one ascribes to Sikyatki any clan belonging to the phratries which are said to have migrated from the far south. —  Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
• Such a group we call a phratry A number of these groups living in the same region and speaking a common dialect constituted a larger union which we sometimes call a nation_, more commonly a tribe This relation may be illustrated by the familiar device of a family-tree, thus Illustration: Indian Family Tree 24} Here we see eleven clans, all descended from a common stock and speaking a common dialect, composing the Mohegan Tribe. —  French Pathfinders in North America
• [5] Then, in some of the Australian tribes, the phratry is subdivided into two, and, in others, into four portions, between which exogamy takes place according to a curious criss-cross scheme. —  Anthropology
• Scholars usually call this group by its Greek name, phratry or "brotherhood", for it was known long ago that in ancient Greece clans were grouped into brotherhoods and brotherhoods into tribes. —  Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins

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