[24]. Farrand, Basis, p. 265; Roger Williams, A Key into the Languages of America (Narragansett Club Publications, vol. 1), p. 138.
[25]. Hodge, Handbook, vol. 1, p. 572.
[26]. L. Carr, “The Food of certain American Indians and their Method of preparing it”; Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, New Series, vol. IV, p. 156.
[27]. L. H. Morgan, Ancient Society (London, 1877), pp. 71 ff.
[28]. Cf. Ellis, The Red Man, pp. 207 ff.
[29]. Hodge, Handbook, vol. I, p. 304.
[30]. The phratry was a combination of two or more clans, forming a larger exogamous group, and originating, perhaps, in the division of overgrown clans. Although it frequently had the power of veto over the election of clan sachems and chiefs, its functions were social rather than political. In ball games, phratry played against phratry, while at funerals and other ceremonies the organization appears clearly. There was no chief or head.
[31]. Clark Wissler, The American Indian (New York, 1917), p. 152.
[32]. Morgan, Ancient Society, pp. 112 ff.
[33]. Williams, Key, p. 74.