Both in Athens and Rome there was a division known as phratry or.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

The exponent of the phratry was the tiyotipi or "soldiers’ lodge," which has been described at length by Dr Riggs. (.    From Wordnik.com.  [Siouan Sociology] Reference

The forces of each phratry went out to war as separate divisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

A person would be described as of such a gens, phratry, and tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

But tell me, has your father had you entered on the registers of his phratry?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birds] Reference

Spanish writers took notice of a tribe, but failed to notice the gens and phratry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

It is somewhat difficult to understand just what the rights and duties of a phratry were.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

The next division of the tribe was the phratry -- the word properly meaning a brotherhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

It is sufficient to state the words gens, and phratry simply denote subdivisions of a tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Among the Iroquois the phratry was apparent chiefly in religious matters, and in social games.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

But, if they were a tribe, did they have the usual subdivisions of a tribe -- which, we remember, are the phratry and gens?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

There are very few representatives of this phratry existing now, and very little tradition extant concerning its early history.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference

The Horn House is so called because tradition connects this village with some of the people of the Horn phratry of the Hopituh or Tusayan.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference

Such a confederacy is a growth, through the tribe and phratry, from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference

The clans in each phratry in the order of generations are as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The North American Indian] Reference

The first phratry included the Bear, the Deer, and the Highland Striped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand] Reference

Unlike the Grecian phratry and the Roman curia, it had no official head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference

It shows also that the phratry is founded upon the kinship of the gentes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference

Each phratry (De da non da a yoh) is a brotherhood as this term also imports.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference

At Athens on feast-days the members of the phratry assembled round their altar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

It was the basis of the phratry, of the tribe, and of the confederacy of tribes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference

In all alike the gens, phratry and tribe were the first three stages of organization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference

The phratry among the Iroquois was partly for social and partly for religious objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference

Allusion has been made to the four phratry-captains commanding the quarters of the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest] Reference

A young Athenian was presented to the phratry by his father, who swore that the boy was his son.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

Other tribes are composed of phratries, and each subtribe or phratry comprises a number of gentes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Siouan Sociology] Reference

With the gens tribe and confederacy in existence the presence of the phratry was substantially assured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference

But a tradition of their former unity would remain and become the basis of their reorganization in a phratry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference

In any view of the matter it is small, tending to illustrate the permanence of the phratry as well as the gens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference

The gentes in the same phratry are brother gentes to each other and cousin gentes to those of the other phratry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference

It is thus seen that the phratry had a natural foundation in the kinship of the gentes of which it was composed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference

The phratry (phratria) is a brotherhood, as the term imports, and a natural growth from the organization into gentes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference

The phratry also appears among the Thlinkits of the Northwest coast upon the surface of their organization into gentes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference

Intermarriage in the phratry is prohibited, which shows of itself that the gentes of each phratry were derived from an original gens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference

The first chapter is a condensation of four in "Ancient Society," namely, those on the gens, phratry, tribe, and confederacy of tribes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference