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Sentence Examples
The feast of Apatouria involves the induction of infants, youths and wives into the phratry, or clan of families.
Among the historic Winnebago, for instance, in-flesh inhumation was associated with the lower phratry, while platform burial was reserved for the upper phratry.
A phratry is a descent group composed of two or more clans each of whose apical ancestors are descended from a further common ancestor.
Examples from Classical Literature
The phrators of the decedent in a body were the mourners, and the members of the opposite phratry conducted the ceremonies.
In other words, the phratry is like a species of which the clans are varieties.
Exceptions to this rule are found among the Haida, where both eagle and raven are in the eagle phratry.
It was the basis of the phratry, of the tribe, and of the confederacy of tribes.
Thus the argument derived from the Mohegan instance of the Turtle phratry is invalidated by the opposite and more numerous facts.
With patrilineal descent they tend to occupy the tribal territory in such a way that each phratry becomes a local group.
Apparently, among the Kamilaroi, members of the same phratry may intermarry, avoiding unions in their own totems.
It is somewhat difficult to understand just what the rights and duties of a phratry were.
The Kamilaroi practice of interphratry marriage arises out of respect for totem and neglect of phratry law.
What, then, would be the marriageable status of the two kins which bare the phratry names?
The Mexican phratry was largely concerned with military matters.
A person would be described as of such a gens, phratry, and tribe.
Each class has a choice between the two classes of the other phratry.
The mother gens was distinguished from these as the phratry.
Some members of the Wolf phratry assert a right to the Eagle crest.
It is true that in both cases the offer must come from the other phratry.
