phratry

A man of the Emu phratry marries a woman of the Kangaroo phratry, and to that phratry her children belong.

Thus members of either phratry must be found in any casual knot or company of natives.

Within each phratry there are, again, kinships also known by hereditary names of animals or plants.

In phratry Kupathin are Ipai (male) and Kumbo (male), while the women bear the feminine forms of these names.

Where totem and phratry names only exist, a man has merely to ask a woman, "What is your phratry name?"