| Now this rule is equivalent in bearing to the rule of the phratries, it is a dichotomous division. |
| Or were totem names given, nobody knows why, to the two phratries at the time when the 'bisection' of the commune was made? |
| Gond society is divided into four groups known as phratries or sagas in Gondi. |
| Among the Haida at least, the totem of the real clans is altered more than that of the phratries. |
| I may be permitted to note that these four Tsimshian clans look, to me, as if they had originally been two pairs of phratries. |
| It is also the eagle-hawk and the crow which have given their names to the two phratries of the Ngarigo and the Wolgal. |
