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In reality this state of things affords the strongest possible support to Mr Lang's hypothesis, if only we can suppose that the formation of tribes is subsequent to the elaboration of the phratriac system.

From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Thomas, Northcote Whitridge

The phratries have thus no presiding animals, and in the phratries there are no totem kins of the phratriac names.

From The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia by Parker, K. Langloh (Katie Langloh)

On the other hand in New South Wales we find an area in which we fail to discern the lines on which the phratriac systems are distributed.

From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Thomas, Northcote Whitridge

The problems raised by the phratriac nomenclature are complex and probably insoluble.

From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Thomas, Northcote Whitridge

It will therefore be well to see what results in practice from the phratriac organisation.

From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Thomas, Northcote Whitridge