| In other words, the phratry is like a species of which the clans are varieties. |
| With patrilineal descent they tend to occupy the tribal territory in such a way that each phratry becomes a local group. |
| It was the basis of the phratry, of the tribe, and of the confederacy of tribes. |
| The feast of Apatouria involves the induction of infants, youths and wives into the phratry, or clan of families. |
| Apparently, among the Kamilaroi, members of the same phratry may intermarry, avoiding unions in their own totems. |
| What, then, would be the marriageable status of the two kins which bare the phratry names? |
