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The former are patrilineal and the latter are grouped into matrilineal exogamic totemic clans.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

Besides this exogamic marriage, an endogamic marriage was later recognized as conferring title, on the condition that the man reconciled the woman's blood relatives by the payment of a definite compensation.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann

Later there was a taboo on exogamic marriage.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

The social organization of the Tlingit is founded on matriarchy and is dependent upon two exogamic parties, the members of which intermarry and supplement each other upon the many ceremonial occasions that mark their intercourse.

From The Whale House of the Chilkat by Emmons, George T.

The Seri are loosely organised in a number of exogamic, matrilineal, totemic clans.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court