Definitionn. people descended from a common ancestor
Last update: June 25, 2015
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It is indeed just possible that the term may originally have signified "true member of a clan," since membership of a phratry was a characteristic of each clan ('y vos). [Please select]
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There are very few representatives of this phratry existing now, and very little tradition extant concerning its early history. [Please select]
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There is no doubt, however, that in the earlier villages each gens, and where practicable, the whole of the phratry, built their houses together. [Please select]
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] The foregoing is the Water or Rain phratry proper, but allied to them are the two following phratries, who also came to this region with the Water phratry. [Please select]
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