| Gond society is divided into four groups known as phratries or sagas in Gondi. |
| It is also the eagle-hawk and the crow which have given their names to the two phratries of the Ngarigo and the Wolgal. |
| Among the Haida at least, the totem of the real clans is altered more than that of the phratries. |
| If totem kins there be in the phratries, these totem kins are exogamous. |
| From time to time this settlement grew in size by the addition of the ala, Pakab, Patki, and other phratries of lesser importance. |
| Or were totem names given, nobody knows why, to the two phratries at the time when the 'bisection' of the commune was made? |
