phratry

How To Use phratry In A Sentence

• It is a common practice of the Senecas to call the gentes of their own phratry brother gentes and those of the other phratry their cousin gentes, when they mention them in their relation to the phratries. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
• He and his city wife (probably chosen for him by Lilisaire because of her family connections, she being of the Mare Crisium phratry) received me courteously if not cordially and were as cooperative as could be expected. The Stars Are Also Fire
• Among the historic Winnebago, for instance, in-flesh inhumation was associated with the lower phratry, while platform burial was reserved for the upper phratry.
• The phratry (phratria) is a brotherhood, as the term imports, and a natural growth from the organization into gentes. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
• Each phratry was divided into two groups: the clansmen (gennetai), made up of the aristocratic eupatridae, and the guildsmen (orgeones), who practiced trade and manufacture. D. Athens
• Kokop phratry by virtue of their descent from the same phratral organization of the ancient pueblo. [ Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
• Both in Athens and Rome there was a division known as phratry or The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)
• In their Heroic Age the Greeks were fighting in phyle and phratry, the Germanic peoples in tribes and kinship-groups, and the ancient Scots in their clans, each of which could be identified by special insignia during the greater collective military expeditions. Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations
• The feast of Apatouria involves the induction of infants, youths and wives into the phratry, or clan of families.
• So we have here a complete organization according to the terms of ancient society: that is, the gens, phratry, tribe, and confederacy of tribes. The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races