MORGAN.) THE TRIBE—THIRD STAGE OF ORGANIZATION. UP 
It shows also that the phratry is founded upon the kinship of the gentes. 
As a rule, the name of the original gens out of which others had formed 
is not known; but in each of these cases it remains as the name of the 
phratry. Since the latter, like the Grecian, was a social and religious rather 
than a governmental organization, it is externally less conspicuous than a 
gens or tribe, which were essential to the government of society. The 
name of but one of the twelve Athenian phratries has come down to us in 
history. Those of the Iroquois had no name but that of a brotherhood. 
The phratry also appears among the Thlinkits of the Northwest coast 
upon the surface of their organization into gentes. They have two phra- 
tries, as follows : 
I. Wolf Phratry. 
Gentes—1. Bear. 2. Eagle. 3. Dolphin. 4. Shark. 5. Alea. 
Il. Raven Phratry. 
Gentes.—6. Frog. 7. Goose. 8. Sea-lion. 9. Owl. 10. Salmon. 
Intermarriage in the phratry is prohibited, which shows of itself that 
the gentes of each phratry were derived from an original gens. The mem- 
bers of any gens in the Wolf phratry could marry into any gens of the 
opposite phratry, and vice versa. 
From the foregoing facts the existence of the phratry is established in 
several linguistic stocks of the American aborigines. Its presence in the 
tribes named raises a presumption of its general prevalence in the Gano- 
wanian family. Among the Village Indians, where the numbers in a gens 
and tribe were greater, it would necessarily have been more important, and 
consequently more fully developed. As an institution it was still in its 
archaic form, but it possessed the essential elements of the Grecian and the 
Roman. 
THE TRIBE, 
It is difficult to describe an Indian tribe by the affirmative elements of 
its composition. Nevertheless it is clearly marked, and is the ultimate organ- 
ization of the great body of the American aborigines. The large number 
of independent tribes into which they had fallen by the natural process of 
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